Biography
Born Huntsville, Alabama, 19 September 1968. Kim Dean enjoyed considerable critical and public acclaim in her native hometown before that success began to translate to international audiences in 2011. An accomplished singer, songwriter, and producer, she began writing her own material at the age of thirteen. She then achieved her first single at the age of 16 ("In A Little While"). The single was one of many Christian contemporaries, but she now focuses mainly in pop rock and pop country, as well as in the Christian Pop Rock direction.
Kim Dean is a passionate and down-to-earth songwriter. She calls her lyrics "Music About Life!" Being quite the storyteller, in the unfolding tale of a man giving his all to his woman, only to end up rejected in the end is Kim Dean's first pop country single "All That I Am" . Driven by a melodic, southern, style guitar lick, the tune really displays Kim Dean's abilities as a songwriter. Tunes such as "When the Love Starts Growin Old" hint at the challenges of potentially losing the love that we’ve worked so hard to attain, and the place we find ourselves in when no matter how hard we had worked at it, it seems that love is fading away.
Kim Dean truly captures the essence of what a woman feels in her emotionally driven songs, a process that usually just begins with a melody building in her head and lyrics that are sure to hit close to home with listeners. “I write from the perspective of a woman who has gone through life’s challenges and come out on the other side. I’m far from perfect, but I think we, as women, are always wearing multiple hats and feeling guilty for not being this every woman that society expects us to be – mother, lover, sister, girlfriend, employee – its hard sometimes.” Not content with just writing the songs, Kim Dean, also leads each musician through each recording session, developing the composition, arranging the vocals, and really working the process from start to finish. “Everything you hear is coming from me 100%; and it’s really important for me to do it that way because I need to capture that sound that I’m hearing in my head, and I won’t stop until I do.”
