Kim Gordon

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kim Gordon
Occupation	Rock Singer
Date Of Birth	Apr 28, 1953(1953-04-28)
Age	71
Birthplace	Rochester
Country	United States
Birth City	New York State
Horoscope	Taurus

Kim Gordon Biography

Kim Gordon is one of the most popular and richest Rock Singer who was born on April 28, 1953 in Rochester, New York State, United States. Rock musician, vocalist, visual artist, music producer, and frontwoman for bands Sonic Youth and Free Kitten.

She has collaborated with iconic rock musicians like Courtney Love, including producing Hole’s album Pretty on the Inside.

Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and bassist, guitarist, and vocalist in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth.

Gordon attended University High School in Los Angeles, and dated classmate Danny Elfman while a student there. After graduating high school, she attended Santa Monica College for two years before transferring to York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Gordon soon grew homesick and chose to drop out of York at the end of the school year and return to Los Angeles. “I was less and less happy as the bleak Toronto winter moved in,” she recalled. “Without the benefit of California sunshine, my hair grew darker and darker, and I had no idea how to dress for the cold.” She decided to enroll at the Otis College of Art and Design, which she said “changed my life.” Gordon lived in Culver City and Venice, Los Angeles, and worked at an Indian restaurant to pay her tuition. She also briefly worked for art dealer Larry Gagosian as a side-job. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1977.

She married Thurston Moore in 1984 the two had a daughter named Coco.

Kim Gordon Net Worth

Kim Gordon is one of the richest Rock Singer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kim Gordon 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She started playing heavy metal in college at York University.

In 1981, she formed Sonic Youth with Lee Ranaldo and, her boyfriend at the time, Thurston Moore.

Kim Althea Gordon was born April 28, 1953 in Rochester, New York, the second child of Althea (d. 2002) and Calvin Wayne Gordon (1915–1998). At the time of her birth, Gordon’s father, a native of Kansas, was a professor in the sociology department at the University of Rochester. Her mother, a descendant of American pioneers of the West Coast, learned to sew during her upbringing in the Great Depression, and worked as a seamstress throughout Gordon’s childhood. She was described by Gordon as “reserved and usually anxious” and “an unfulfilled artist.” Gordon has one older brother, Keller (b. 1949), whom she described as “brilliant, manipulative, sadistic, arrogant, almost unbearably articulate,” and “the person who more than anyone else in the world shaped who I was, and who I turned out to be.”

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In 1989, Sonic Youth signed onto DGC Records, a subsidiary of Geffen, and released Goo (1990), which became the group’s first commercial hit. Also in 1989, Gordon, Sadie May, and Lydia Lunch formed Harry Crews, and released the album Naked in Garden Hills. To promote Goo, Gordon toured with Sonic Youth extensively between 1990 and 1991, and a documentary titled 1991: The Year Punk Broke documented the band’s tour with Nirvana, Babes in Toyland, Dinosaur Jr., Gumball and Mudhoney. In early 1991, Courtney Love, who had been influenced by Sonic Youth and the no wave scene, sent Gordon a letter asking her to produce her band Hole’s debut record, Pretty on the Inside. Gordon, along with assistance from Don Fleming, produced the album in March 1991, which received critical acclaim and later achieved cult status. Gordon commented on the recording sessions that Love “was either charming and nice or screaming at her band” but that she was “a really good singer and entertainer and front person.” In 1992, Gordon released a single, “Electric Pen,” with Mirror/Dash, a short-lived project she formed with Moore.

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Kim Ranked on the list of most popular Rock Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Kim Gordon celebrates birthday on April 28 of every year.

In addition to her work as a musician, Gordon has had ventures in record producing, fashion, and acting, and has worked consistently as a visual artist throughout her musical career. She debuted as a producer on Hole’s debut album Pretty on the Inside (1991), and founded the Los Angeles-based clothing line X-Girl in 1993. Beginning in the mid-2000s, Gordon began acting, making minor appearances in such films as Last Days (2005) and I’m Not There (2007), followed by guest-starring appearances on several television series. In February 2015, she published a memoir, Girl in a Band, by HarperCollins imprint Dey Street Books.

Why did Kim Gordon leave Sonic Youth?

Unfortunately, the end of Sonic Youth was decided by Moore’s affair with book editor Eva Prinz. Moore and Gordon attempted marriage counselling, but the point was moot when Moore refused to end the affair. In October of 2011, Moore and Gordon officially announced their separation.

When did Kim Gordon leave Sonic Youth?

On October 14, 2011 , Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore announced that they had separated after 27 years of marriage. Sonic Youth’s label Matador explained that plans for the band remained “uncertain”, despite previously hinting that they would record new material later in the year.

Where is Kim Gordon now?

Now, Gordon is touring behind her nine-song, 2019 album “No Home Record,” a collaboration with producer Justin Raisen, who’s worked with Charli XCX, Sky Ferreira and John Cale, among others. Gordon sees this album as a “fresh start,” in a way.

Is Kim Gordon a good bassist?

But she soon proved herself to be a natural talent on the bass , whether she acknowledges it or not. Fellow bassist and old friend Mike Watt said that Gordon “paints with sound and emotion to make music — she doesn’t execute riffs or exhibit motifs.

Why did Thurston and Kim break up?

Last year, Gordon told Elle about their split, revealing that it was due to an affair Moore had been carrying on for years. “It ended in a kind of normal way—midlife crisis, starstruck woman,” Gordon said. “Thurston was carrying on this whole double life with her.