Biography
Grace Kim is an R&B singer-songwriter, pianist, music director, album producer and film music composer based in Seoul, South Korea.
Her music was hugely influenced by Esperanza Spalding and Snarky Puppy. The highly crafted live performance eividences her musicality. With a little sprinkling of Kate Bush's eccentricity on her songwriting, she began to get recognition in the UK by performing at international music festivals, including Liverpool International Music Festival(LIMF), Oxjam Festival, and Jazz in the Park Competition in Romania. Her single, You Make Me Believe, was played on Heart FM and BBC 1Xtra.
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With the sponsorship from Institute of Contemporary Music Performance (ICMP) and Dyne Road Development Fund, she had led two bands; Grace Kim Band based in Northwest England and Grace Kim&The Skittles in London up until the COVID-19 shutdown.
Moving to South Korea, she began her appearances as a regular host of a live radio show and a TV show, English Go! Go! on EBS FM, performing well-known pop hits weekly from 2019 to 2020.
She participated in the music composition of a MBN K-drama, Bossam: Steal the Fate. Currently, she produces a Christian songwriting group, Proj. Apostles' Creed and working as a Korean-English interpreter based in Korea.