Born December 20th, 1973 in Miami, Florida and later based in Cincinnati, Ohio, American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Kim Taylor quickly drummed up a loyal following with her pared-back folk music. Garnering positive reviews and radio support on her debut album, 2002’s So Black, So Bright, she picked up the title of New Artist of the Year at the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards. After self-releasing an untitled EP in 2004, Taylor bagged another of their awards, Singer-Songwriter of the Year, a title which she would go on to claim six times. Thereafter, she began recording a second LP in New York, assisted by Ollabelle guitarist Jimi Zhivago and various drummers. The self-released I Feel Like a Fading Light arrived in 2006, and earned the title of NPR World Cafe’s Album of the Week. Her next project, the 2008 EP The Greatest Story, was produced by Fountains of Wayne collaborator Mike Deneen, and led to Paste Magazine naming her the ‘Best of What’s Next’ for 2009. Inking a sync licensing deal with MTV later the same year, she returned in 2010 with her third album, Little Miracle, recorded with Zhivago in just three days. Shortly afterwards, she released a 2011 EP entitled Build You Up, which included the song “I Am You” as well as the popular title track. Taylor’s fourth LP, Love’s a Dog, landed in 2013. The year also saw her make her acting debut in the critically acclaimed film I Used to Be Darker, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to positive reviews from The New Yorker and Time Out Chicago. In 2016, Taylor teamed up with fellow singer-songwriter Todd Thibaud to form the duo Water and Sand, who released a self-titled album via Blue Rose Records. In 2019, Taylor unveiled her fifth solo LP, Songs of Instruction, which she had co-produced herself for the first time.
