Kim Moberg Music

Award winning singer/songwriter/guitarist Kim Moberg was born in Juneau, Alaska, the daughter of a mother of Alaskan Native Tlingit descent and a US Coast Guard veteran father from Kansas. Kim inherited an innate sense of music which was the constant in Kim's childhood, helping her to adjust to the frequent moves associated with growing up in a military family.

A classical pianist and guitarist, Kim’s mother guided her life-long love for a wide range of musical genres from traditional and contemporary jazz to Broadway tunes and Folk music. Her father, a lifelong country music fan, exposed her to legendary Country music artists like Johnny Cash and Hank Williams. As a Folk/Americana artist, Kim’s sound reflects this mélange of her musical upbringing.

At the age of 14, Kim began playing acoustic guitar on a borrowed nylon 6 string. Later, Kim taught herself to strum and finger pick to her favorite songs by singer/songwriters, but debilitating stage fright kept her from pursuing her dream of becoming a professional performer. In 2014, after a career spanning nearly two decades in the financial industry, Kim set out to overcome her stage fright and wrote her first song.

Kim teamed with Grammy-nominated producer Jon Evans (Tori Amos / Sarah McLachlan) to record "Above Ground” (2017) and “Up Around The Bend” (2020), each charting on the Folk International Folk DJ and the North American College & Community Radio charts to critical acclaim.

Kim and Jon collaborated again for her third album “The Seven Fires Prophecy: Suite for Humanity” (2023), an 8 song original suite that ties the ancient Anishinaabe prophecy to our current social environment. The project blossomed from Kim’s desire to share what she learned about Indigenous teachings and the important and relevant life lessons they offer.

Kim's rich vocals, described as “a blend of honey and whiskey”, gently guides listeners through her musical stories while her compositions tug at feelings of melancholy, heartbreak, healing and social consciousness.


RECENT RECOGNITIONS
*2024 Folk Alliance International Official Showcase Artist
*2023 “The Seven Fires Prophecy Suite for Humanity” #8 Folk Alliance International Folk DJ Top Album
*2022 AFCC/MASSMoCA/A4A Capacity Building Grant Recipient
*2022 The Folk Collective Inaugural Member | Club Passim
*2021 “21 Steps (Ballad for the Unknowns)” #17 Folk Alliance International Folk DJ Top Song
*2021 “Up Around The Bend” #43 Folk Alliance International Folk DJ Top Album
*2021 Folk Alliance International Showcase Artist | International Indigenous Music Summit
*2021 Rocky Mountain Songwriting Contest Finalist
*2021 Finalist Great American Songwriting Contest Folk/Americana
*2020 "Up Around The Bend” #62 Folk Alliance International Folk DJ Top Albums of The Year
*2020 CT Folk Grassy Hill Songwriting Competition Winner (1 of 5 Winners)
*2020 Corpus Christi Songwriters Spring Songwriters Contest 2nd Place
*2020 "Up Around The Bend" cd #31 Folk Alliance International Folk DJ Chart
*2020 Finalist Blues & Roots Radio Song Contest
*2020 Folk Alliance International Scholarship Grantee
*2020 International Indigenous Music Summit / Folk Alliance International Performing A
*2019 Music City (Nashville) SongStar Semi-Finalist Fall
*2019 Finalist Blues & Roots Radio Song Contest
*2018 1st Place Rose Garden Coffee House Performing Songwriter Competition
*2018 2nd Place Linden Tree Coffee House Winter Potpourri American Idol Folk
*2018 ”Above Ground” cd #23 Folk Alliance International Folk DJ Chart
*2018 “In December” single #12 Folk Alliance International Folk DJ Chart
*2017 NERFA Suzi Wollenberg DJ Showcase Performing Artist

Kim's performance resume includes sharing the stage as opener and/or co-bill with numerous contemporary and established artists including: Jim Kweskin, Bill Staines, Kirsten Maxwell, Ellis Paul, Joe Jencks, Vance Gilbert, Catie Curtis, Cheryl Wheeler, Alice Howe, Rod Abernethy, Grace Morrison, Rupert Wates, and Tom Prasada-Rao.

www.kimmobergmusic.com

"Kim’s mighty pen is a source of amazing material that bridges the past with the future. She brings stories to life with harmonious melodies, and nothing can be more representative of that than her brand new LP Up Around The Bend. Kim’s stories are real, relatable and can connect each and every listener to their substance. In this world there are some people who write true organic music, music so real, and so important for our times, and that is Kim Moberg. It doesn’t hurt that she has an amazing voice to go with it!!” -Jon Sexauer, Country, American, Roots, Blues Music Promotion