Kim Bingham

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Kim Bingham
Bingham at the Montreal Jazz Festival 2008
Background information
Also known as	Mudgirl
Born	March 17, 1969 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Origin	Montreal, Quebec
Genres	pop, rock, alt rock, third wave ska, film scores
Occupation(s)	Vocalist, musician, songwriter
Instruments	Guitar, vocals
Years active	1990s–present
Labels	Mudgirl Music Group
Associated acts	Me Mom and Morgentaler, Mudgirl, The Kim Band, Kamikaze Pilot, David Usher, Nelly Furtado, Bran Van 3000
Website	KimBingham.com

Kim Bingham is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, vocalist, and composer also known as Mudgirl and The Kim Band; she is also known for collaborations with Nelly Furtado, Bran Van 3000 and David Usher.

Music career[]

1990-94: Me Mom and Morgentaler[]

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Bingham began her career in music as a member of the Montreal, Quebec third-wave ska band Me Mom and Morgentaler formed in 1990. The band became known for elaborate live performances, spectacles of vaudevillian-styled performance art. With the band, Bingham recorded three works: "Clown Heaven and Hell" EP (1991), "Shiva Space Machine" (1993) and Live "We Are Revolting: Live & Obscure 1990–1994 (1994).^{[citation needed]}

1994–99: Mudgirl[]

In 1994, Bingham left Me, Mom and Morgentaler and moved to Vancouver where she formed the project Mudgirl with drummer/vocalist (Carly Rae Jepsen, the Paperboys, Bloody Chicletts), bassist/vocalist (), & guitarist Lucas Truman. Her moniker "Mudgirl" was chosen based on "the title of a short story she wrote about a waif made of mud" intended for children. She stated, "Mudgirl is an extension of myself where I get to be cartoony and a bit surreal." In 1996, Mudgirl released their debut five-song EP "First Book" which included three Canadian radio hits "This Day", "Adjusted" and "Contact" (written by ). She also produced a handful of popular videos featured on MuchMusic,^[1] and performed on some dates in the U.S., including a July 1996 performance with Mudgirl at Lilith Fair.^[2]

1999–06: The Kim Band[]

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After five years as Mudgirl, Bingham decided to change the name of her collective to "The Kim Band". Under this moniker, she released the album "Girlology" (2001) produced by Steven Drake (The Odds, The Tragically Hip). The album featured the radio singles "What A Drag", "Valentine's Day"  and "Quel Dommage", her French version of "What A Drag" that reached No.1 on French-Canadian radio charts.^{[citation needed]}

Collaborations with David Usher, Nelly Furtado and Bran Van 3000. 2000–03: Touring, bands[]

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From 2001 until 2003, Bingham worked with Canadian singer David Usher as a guitarist and backing vocalist.^{[citation needed]} "Black Black Heart" is a song written by Usher and Jeff Pearce and for which the operatic female vocal is provided by Bingham, while the chorus samples The Flower Duet (Sous le dôme épais), a duet for sopranos from Léo Delibes' opera Lakmé, as a hook. "Black Black Heart" won two MuchMusic Video Awards for Best Post-Production and Best Pop Video in 2002.^{[citation needed]}

In 2003 and early 2004, Bingham toured Europe and the U.S. with pop singer Nelly Furtado as a guitarist and backing vocalist in Furtado's band. Bingham collaborated, also, with Bran Van 3000 and is featured on the albums "Rosé" and "The Garden". Bingham also toured in Canada as part of Bran Van 3000, including a concert as the main act at the Montreal Jazz Festival in 2008.^{[citation needed]}

Les Invincibles 2005–2009[]

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From 2005 to 2009, Bingham composed the soundtrack for the TV trilogy Les Invincibles with three seasons on the original Canadian TV production (broadcast on Radio Canada) and two seasons on the reprised European versions, a Franco-Belgian-German production (broadcast on Arte). In 2007, Bingham's original music for the Canadian series was nominated as Best Original Score at the Prix Gémeaux television award; Bingham won the Best Theme Song award with the theme song "The Heroes Take", shared with co-writer and show creator Jean-Francois Rivard. Also in 2007, at the request of fans of the Canadian TV show, Bingham performed and produced the soundtrack album "Les Invincibles" with the support of Warner Music Canada.^{[citation needed]}

UP! and single releases 2010–2020[]

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L-R: Jayne Hill, Sara Johnston, Gary McKenzi, Nick Hynes, Kim Bingham & Stephane Moraille, at the Bran Van 3000 Concert @ Montreal Jazz Festival 2008

Bingham's next work, the full-length album “UP!", was recorded in Los Angeles with co-producer John Kastner (Doughboys, All Systems Go) and with members of super bands such as Queens Of the Stone Age, Jellyfish, Blind Melon and Masters of Reality over the summer of 2010. The album was released in  May 2012 under Bingham's longstanding indie label Mudgirl Music Group, with distribution by Distribution Select across Canada.^{[citation needed]}

The stop-motion animation video for the album single "Up!" won the Best Video award at the 2013 edition of the Independent Music Awards USA. The French version of the song "UP!" and the sole French single on the album, a song called "Party Girl", were once again radio hits for Bingham in French-speaking parts of Canada. In January 2019, the song "Bel Ami" from Bingham's album "UP!" was chosen as the theme song for the US TV series "Good Trouble". In summer 2019, Bingham released her first single performed in both English and Italian, the upbeat pop song "Beppe Green".^{[citation needed]}

Style[]

According to The Spokesman-Review, Bingham "plays a musical style modeled after the eclectic pop of The The."^[3]

Personal life[]

Bingham was raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and presently lives in France.^[4]

Awards[]

Discography[]

With Me Mom and Morgentaler[]

Albums

• 1991: Clown Heaven and Hell EP
• 1993: Shiva Space Machine
• 1994: We Are Revolting: Live & Obscure 1990-1994 (live)

Solo material[]

Albums[]

Singles[]

TV scores[]

• 2005–09: Les Invincibles (Canada) – composer
• 2008–10: Les Invincibles (France-Germany) – composer
• 2019: Song "Bel Ami" used as theme music for Good Trouble (US) – composer

Guest appearances[]

See also[]

• List of musicians from British Columbia
• List of Canadian musicians

References[]

External links[]

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