- Kim Bingham
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Bran Van 3000 Concert at the Montreal Jazz Festival 2008
Kim Bingham is a Canadian singer-songwriter.
She began her career in music as a member of the Montreal, Quebec third wave ska band Me Mom and Morgentaler. In 1994, Bingham left Me Mom & Morgentaler and moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, married then-fiancee (now ex-husband) Steven Drake of the Odds and formed the band Mudgirl with drummer Glenn Kruger (the Paperboys, Bloody Chicletts, Tariq), bassist/songwriter Russell Less (the ground), and guitarist Lucas Truman. Mudgirl recorded and released their debut 5-song CD "First Book" in 1995 and had Canadian radio hits that year with "This Day" & "Adjusted", produced a handful of popular videos featured on MuchMusic, and performed on some Lilith Fair dates in the U.S.A.
However, in 1999, she dissolved Mudgirl and created The Kim Band, with a rotating collective of musicians in which Bingham herself was the sole constant. That group's debut album, Girlology, was released in 2001. From 2001 until 2003, Bingham also worked with Canadian singer David Usher as a guitarist and backing vocalist.
In 2003, she released a French language single, "Coeur de sable", which was a popular Top 40 hit in Quebec. In 2003 and early 2004, she toured Europe and the U.S. with pop singer Nelly Furtado as a guitarist and backing vocalist in Furtado's band.
From 2005 to 2009, Bingham wrote the score for the three seasons of the SRC primetime series Les Invincibles. In 2007, Bingham was nominated for Best Original Score at Québec's Prix Gémeaux television awards and won the Prix Gémeaux with Jean-Francois Rivard (co-creator/director of Les Invincibles for Best Theme Song ("The Heroes Take").
In 2006, Bingham relocated to Los Angeles and formed the all-female rock trio Kamikaze Pilot. She collaborated with Bran Van 3000's James DiSalvio in Los Angeles, appearing on the band's album Rosé (2008).
In 2007, Bingham released two albums in Canada: Les Invincibles TV soundtrack (Warner Music Canada) and a French mini-album, Intermede (Musik 2 Musik).
In 2008, Bingham performed a series of dates in Canada with Bran Van 3000 including the main outdoor show at the Montreal International Jazz Festival that attracted more than 140,000 spectators. That summer, she also released the single "Ticket pour l'amour". In 2009, she composed the music for the first two seasons of the Franco-German of production Les Invincibles (broadcast on Arte, March 2010).
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