Kari Kimmel - "Dreamer" (2006)

Kari Kimmel is an American singer, songwriter, composer, and producer. She is best known for the theme track It's Not Just Make Believe for Ella Enchanted, the theme track Black for The Walking Dead trailer, and the theme track Where You Belong for The Fosters.

She has written, arranged, produced, and performed music which has been licensed in over 650 studio films, network television series, trailers, video games, and commercials. Notable productions include the films Blockers, World War Z, Southpaw, and The Duff, the television shows America's Funniest Home Videos, The Office, New Girl, Pretty Little Liars, The Lying Game and Grimm, in addition to the Walking Dead trailer. Her music has
also been used in advertisements for Google and Nissan, and the popular video game The Sims. Her track Let's Light It Up was used by WWE wrestler AJ Lee as her entrance theme.

She has composed 18 theme songs for multiple television series, including Where You Belong for family drama series The Fosters, and has performed tracks in the films Pitch Perfect, Pitch Perfect 2, Dreamgirls, Danny Collins, Descendants, Descendants 2, Teen Beach Movie, Teen Beach Movie 2, and Footloose. Her music video for the track Low was used to promote the television series Private Practice and her music video for the track Trouble aired on
Oxygen and KNBC.

She has also performed live on The Adam Corolla Show, The Danny Bonaduce Show, The Conway & Whitman Show, KNBC, and Fox Sports West and Prime Ticket and at multiple venues in Los Angeles, including Los Angeles Dodgers games, Los Angeles Lakers games, and the AIDS Walk benefit, hosted by Prince Edward and the Greek Theatre in 2010, where she closed the show.

She has also written songs which have been recorded by notable artists including The Backstreet Boys, Kesha, Joe Jonas, Demi Lovato and Gloria Gaynor. She has also sung background vocals for Ringo Starr, Bruce Springsteen, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Stevie
Wonder, John Mayer, Willie Nelson, and Pharrell.

Kimmel has released five solo albums, titled A Life in the Day, Out of Focus, From the Vault, Go, and Black. Her sixth solo album Gold & Glitter was released on May 25, 2018. The title track was featured in the 2018 comedy film Blockers.

She was named in the Top 50 Artists on VH1.com.

In 2015, Kimmel launched her own licensing company Glow Music Group, and now represents over 200 bands in addition to her own music. In 2017, she led a writer's retreat for VocalizeU and ASCAP in Ojai, CA. Kari remains fiercely independent and continues to follow her own instincts and desires.

Home: Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.
Lives in: Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Official: http://karikimmel.com/

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