Kimbra was born in Hamilton. Her debut album, Vows, was released 
in 2011, and her second album, The Golden Echo, was released in 2014. Kimbra’s collaboration with Gotye on ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’ 
won record of the year and best pop duo/group performance

at the 2012 Grammy Awards.

 

Kimbra has twice travelled to Ethiopia in support of Tirzah International,

a global network of grassroots movements that works 
to combat poverty, exclusion from education, modern-day slavery,

HIV/AIDS and violence against women and girls.

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