Kimberly Cole is an American pop singer, songwriter, music correspondent, and host. She is signed with the William Morris Endeavor agency.
Background
Cole has interviewed celebrities, bands, and other recording artists for MTV and the American Music Awards. Cole's Twitter account has over 2 million followers.
She's been described by Vevo as an "Artist, Journalist, Style Queen," and "Pop Culture Renaissance woman."
She has also been featured in MTV Style, Nylon Magazine, Idolator, and Billboard.
As an influencer, Cole has been a Buzzmaker for SpinMedia and Buzznet and, in 2015, worked with such brands as Rimmel London, Guess, Coach, Mattel, Old Navy, Cross Pens, Degree, and Suave. She has also appeared in commercials for Mountain Dew, Rubbermaid, Sony, and Skechers.
Most recently, Cole has worked as a creative director and executive producer with Critical Content and Get Lifted Film Co.
In November 2020, Cole also collaborated with UC San Francisco (UCSF), the Global Brain Health Institute (GNHI), and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) on a virtual event entitled “The Last Dance: Music, Improvisation, & the Resilient Brain.”The event explored the effects of music on brain resilience and was inspired by Cole’s song “Last Dance,” along with her experiences with her father, who had frontotemporal dementia (FTD). The event included contributions from experts such as Charles Limb. Cole helped develop the program with UCSF, GBHI, and SFCM.
Personal life
Cole has studied voice, piano, and dance since the age of four. Cole was raised in a very academic family. As the daughter of a dentist and school principal, education was important from an early age. As long as her homework was done, she was encouraged to do anything she was interested in. As a result, she discovered her passion for singing and roller skating.
She is a champion professional artistic roller skater who has performed in competitions and was nationally recognized in her teens.
Cole earned a degree in theater at UCLA. An alumnus of Fountain Valley High School, she has served as a guest judge in the annual Voice of Fountain Valley competition at Fountain Valley High School. She is quarter of Russian descent.
Career
Her performances have led her to write two songs for the movie Fame (2009).
Cole's debut album Bad Girls Club was released on iTunes in 2010, promoting Oxygen Network's The Bad Girls Club show. Her single and video "Smack You," in which she teamed up with famed choreographer Tricia Miranda to produce, saw success and led to the song being featured throughout season 5 of the show. Cole and Miranda were touted as "artistic soulmates" and worked together for several years after that.
The multiplatform release was the first co-branded album for Oxygen Media, promoted with an extensive social media campaign hashtagged #UpToNoGood.
In 2011, her song "I Know" was featured in Mean Girls 2.
At MTV's VMA Radio Forum in 2012, Cole told Celebuzz she would shave her head in support of their Annual Stand up to Cancer event; Cole is quoted saying, "I would absolutely do that. I’m so passionate about my family, my friends. It’s all love. That’s what we’re here for. That’s why we make music," showing her support alongside celebrities such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Justin Timberlake, and Taylor Swift. They were in attendance at the annual Stand up to Cancer televised event.
In 2014, the song "Smack You" charted at number nineteen on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart before peaking at number four, spending thirteen weeks on the chart, and as a result, the album continued to serve as the soundtrack for Season 6 of The Bad Girls Club. "Smack You" was also featured in the "What's Hot" and "New and Noteworthy" sections on the iTunes Store.
In 2016, her song "U Make Me Wanna" (with Eddie Amador and featuring GT Garza) was featured in Basketball Wives LA. In 2016, her song "Nitty Gritty" was also featured on the Season Finale of Season 19 of Dancing with the Stars, where Duck Dynasty teen Sadie Robertson and pro partner Mark Ballas performed their samba/quickstep to the track.
Cole has graced the covers of magazines such as Ouch, Nouveau, and Fault in 2016 and was one of a long list of stars seen on the cover of Fault Magazine's "Millions" issue, including those such as Demi Lovato, Usher, Kevin Spacey, and Uma Thurman.