Kim Bingham

Kim Bingham
Bingham at the Montreal Jazz Festival 2008
Background information
Origin	Canada
Genres	pop, rock, alt rock, third wave ska, film scores
Occupation(s)	Vocalist, musician, songwriter
Instruments	Guitar, vocals
Years active	1990s–present
Labels	Mudgirl Music Group
Associated acts	Me Mom and Morgentaler, Mudgirl, The Kim Band, Kamikaze Pilot, David Usher, Nelly Furtado, Bran Van 3000
Website	KimBingham.com
Notable instruments
Guitar, vocals

Kim Bingham is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, vocalist, and composer. She began her career as front-woman of the Montreal third wave ska band Me Mom and Morgentaler, and started her solo career in 1994 as Mudgirl. She released her debut album in 1996, and shortly after reformed as The Kim Band. She has released solo albums and singles in both French and English, and her 2012 album Up! was recorded with Canadian co-producer John Kastner. The video for the song "Up!" was a winner for Best Short Form Video at the 2013 Independent Music Awards.

She has worked as a guitarist and backing vocalist for musicians such as David Usher and Nelly Furtado, also collaborating with Bran Van 3000. Bingham wrote the score for the TV show Les Invincibles, and in 2007 was nominated for Best Original Score at Québec's Prix Gémeaux television awards, where she won Best Theme Song. She continues to act as president of the independent label Mudgirl Music Group.

Kim Bingham was born and raised in Montreal, Québec, Canada. As early as the age of eight she had an interest in entertainment and the arts, and soon picked up singing and guitar.

Kingham began her career in music as a member of the Montreal, Quebec third wave ska band Me Mom and Morgentaler, formed in 1990. The band became known for elaborate live performances, spectacles of vaudevillian-styled performance art. Me Mom and Morgentaler briefly reformed in 2007 for a reunion, before disbanding more permanently.

In 1994 Bingham left Me Mom & Morgentaler and moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, where she married then-fiancee (now ex-husband) Steven Drake of the Odds and formed the solo project Mudgirl. Her moniker Mudgirl was chosen based on "the title of a short story she wrote about a waif made of mud," intended for children. She stated “Mudgirl is an extension of myself where I get to be cartoony and a bit surreal.” Musical members of the Mudgirl band included drummer/vocalist Glenn Kruger (The Paperboys, Bloody Chicletts, Tariq), bassist/vocalist Russell Less (The Ground), and guitarist Lucas Truman. Stated Nicholas Jennings, the band "leavens crunching guitars and slamming drums with a sunny, buoyant chorus on songs like the rocking 'This Day.'"