Musicians You Should Know: Katie Kim

Basic Facts

Born: December 10, 1993, South Korea
Type of Performer: Singer
Genre: R&B, K-pop

About Katie Kim

Katie Kim, who goes by KATIE, was born in South Korea in 1993, but moved to the United States when she was little. She was raised in New Jersey, and she attended Berklee College of Music but dropped out under the financial strain. She applied for the fourth season of Korean K-Pop reality competition K-Pop Star and won. This earned her a contract with YG Entertainment, one of the biggest K-Pop labels in the world, and she moved to Seoul while she worked to get her career started. However, she had trouble breaking through and ultimately left YG and signed with AXIS, a new entertainment startup.  Given her past, she has been pigeonholed under the K-Pop umbrella but has pushed back against that label; her debut album, Log, is more influenced by R&B and she sings in English. 

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