Kim Sanders

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Kim Sanders (2006)

Kim Sanders (born October 24, 1968 in East Chicago, Indiana ) is an American singer and composer who has lived in Germany since 1989. During the 1990s and 2000s she appeared in various dance floor productions, including Culture Beat , Captain Hollywood Project , Loft , Schiller and Karl Keaton .

Life

Kim Sanders was abused many times in her early childhood by her stepfather , about whom she later reported:

“My stepfather was a very mean, cold and scary man. His very presence caused horror, his punishments were inhuman. "

As a result, Sanders also suffered from depression , anorexia and school problems.

During her time in high school , Sanders starred in various musicals. She began to sing professionally at the age of 15 and wrote her first own songs at the age of 17. She supervised the US youth television show UpBeat for a year before moving with her mother and siblings from the United States to Heidelberg , Germany , in 1989 . Sanders initially worked on studio recordings where her voice was used as a second voice . The first well-known productions were Show Me with Torsten Fenslau , Hold On with Loft and Impossible with Captain Hollywood Project . In 1993 the singer made it into the German single charts for nine weeks with her single Show Me . In 1994 she made it into the German charts again with Ride and stayed there for two weeks. From 1998 to 1999 she was the front singer at Culture Beat , for which she sang the titles Pay No Mind and Rendez-Vous , among others . All of these productions are assigned to the music genre Eurodance .

Since 2000, Sanders has been a guest singer in the Schiller ambient project several times . She can be heard on several albums of the music project and also took part in the tours. She was able to land twice with Schiller chart hits. In 2004, Sanders recorded the title Aus Gold with Milú and Heppner . She also worked with producers and artists such as Nicola Conte and Till Brönner .

Her single Something About You , released in 2003, was unable to make it into the sales charts despite a lot of airplay because the record company made a mistake with the barcode.

In 2003 her first solo album Pretty on Edge was released , which was produced by Gerret Frerichs . She dedicated the song release on this album to singer Melanie Thornton, who died in 2001 .

In 2009 she recorded a title for his album Round Silence with the German jazz drummer Wolfgang Haffner : It's Not Safe , published by ACT Music.

In 2009 Sanders released her second solo album A Closer Look , which was awarded the German Record Critics' Prize in the “Black Music” category in spring 2010 . From the end of 2011 she took part in the German singing casting show The Voice of Germany , where she chose Nena’s team . On February 10, 2012, Sanders reached second place in the final.

In 2013 Kim Sanders moved to Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony . After becoming ambassador for the German Children's Association in 2017 , she decided to publish her song "Father", which she had already written in 2003 with her colleague Marcus Brosch, in which she took up the abuse she had suffered from her stepfather in her childhood.

Discography

Studio albums

  • 2003: Pretty on Edge
  • 2009: A Closer Look

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH US US
1993 Show me DE33 (9 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: September 1993
Hold On
Wake the World 		DE21 (20 weeks)
DE 		AT26 (4 weeks)
AT 		CH30 (10 weeks)
CH 		-
First published: November 1993
with Loft
1994 Ride DE87 (2 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: October 1994
1998 Jealousy - - - US89 (10 weeks)
US
First published: January 1998
Pay No Mind
Metamorphosis 		DE27 (10 weeks)
DE 		AT37 (2 weeks)
AT 		- -
First published: February 1998
with Culture Beat
Rendez-vous
Metamorphosis 		DE53 (9 weeks)
DE 		AT38 (2 weeks)
AT 		- -
First published: June 1998
with Culture Beat
You Belong
Metamorphosis 		DE77 (9 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: October 1998
with Culture Beat
2001 Dancing with loneliness
world tour 		DE73 (1 week)
DE 		- - -
First publication: November 2001
with Schiller
2004 Made of gold
no future in gold 		DE73 (5 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First publication: December 2004
with Milù & Peter Heppner
2008 Let me love you
longing 		DE63 (3 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First publication: May 2008
with Schiller
2012 Killing Me Softly with His Song DE57 (2 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: January 2012
Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down DE54 (2 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: February 2012
Haunted DE13 (3 weeks)
DE 		AT37 (1 week)
AT 		CH34 (2 weeks)
CH 		-
First published: February 2012

More singles:

  • 1994: Tell Me That You Want Me
  • 2001: Food for Thoughts
  • 2003: Something About You
  • 2003: Tricky

Guest Posts

With Schiller:

  • 2001: Distance (Album Weltreise )
  • 2003: Delicately Yours (album Life )
  • 2005: I Know and I Saved You (Album Tag und Nacht )
  • 2008: Forever (Album Sehnsucht )
  • 2010: Under My Skin (album breathless )

Further:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kim Sanders. In: lastfm.de. Retrieved December 4, 2011 .
  2. ↑ a b Kim Sanders: The real Kim Sanders. September 1, 2015, accessed September 1, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b c o.V. : Sanders opens dark chapter / singer publishes song about abuse experienced in childhood , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from November 23, 2017
  4. ↑ Chart history "Show Me" on chartsurfer.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / chartsurfer.de  
  5. ↑ "Ride" chart history on chartsurfer.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / chartsurfer.de  
  6. ↑ Incorrect barcode: sales figures not taken into account ( memento of the original from August 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / top.de
  7. ↑ Presentation of the certificate “Prize of the German Record Critics”. (No longer available online.) In: caremusicgroup.de. April 27, 2010, archived from the original on January 13, 2012 ; Retrieved December 4, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.caremusicgroup.de
  8. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH US
personal data
SURNAME Sanders, Kim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH East Chicago , Indiana , United States