킴 고든

소개

킴 엘시아 고든(Kim Althea Gordon, 1953년 4월 28일 ~)은 미국의 음악가, 작곡가, 시각 예술가다. 뉴욕 시 로체스터 출신인 고든은 캘리포니아주 로스앤젤레스에서 자랐고 오티스 아트 인스티튜트에서 공부했다. 이후 그는 뉴욕 시를 거점으로 하는 얼터너티브 록 밴드 소닉 유스에서 베이시스트, 기타리스트, 보컬리스트로 활동하며 두각을 나타냈다.

Kim Althea Gordon is an American musician, singer and songwriter best known as the bassist, guitarist, and vocalist of alternative rock band Sonic Youth. Born in Rochester, New York, she was raised in Los Angeles, where her father was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. After graduating from Los Angeles's Otis College of Art and Design, she moved to New York City to begin an art career. There, she formed Sonic Youth with Thurston Moore in 1981. She and Moore married in 1984, and the band released a total of six albums on independent labels before the end of the 1980s. It then released nine studio albums on the label DGC Records, beginning with Goo in 1990. Gordon was also a founding member of the musical project Free Kitten, which she formed with Julia Cafritz in 1993.