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Kim Gordon

1953 - Today

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Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953) 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, California, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kim Gordon is the 1,052nd most popular singer (up from 1,303rd in 2019), the 5,853rd most popular biography from United States (up from 6,668th in 2019) and the 297th most popular American Singer.

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Kim Gordon ranks 1,052 out of 4,381Before her are Ayumi Hamasaki, Mýa, Katharine McPhee, Kićo Slabinac, Andrea True, and Anita Traversi. After her are Fedora Barbieri, Maggie MacNeal, Haykanoush Danielyan, Mark Tornillo, Suraphol Sombatcharoen, and Kikki Danielsson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Kim Gordon ranks 254Before her are Dževad Karahasan, Władysław Kozakiewicz, Scott Hicks, Grete Waitz, Charles Martin Smith, and Hiroyuki Usui. After her are Ken Davitian, Andrey Makarevich, Gernot Rohr, Zoran Lilić, Sara Simeoni, and Zoran Filipović.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kim Gordon ranks 5,853 out of 20,380Before her are Charles W. Gilmore (1874), Alice Brown (1960), Tony Amendola (1951), Billy Crudup (1968), Gordon Douglas (1907), and Dianne Feinstein (1933). After her are Rob Bourdon (1979), Paul Morrissey (1938), John Garfield (1913), Dizzy Reed (1963), Matt Schulze (1972), and Ambrose Burnside (1824).

Among SINGERS In United States

Among singers born in United States, Kim Gordon ranks 297Before her are Anita O'Day (1919), Blind Lemon Jefferson (1893), Tammi Terrell (1945), Mýa (1979), Katharine McPhee (1984), and Andrea True (1943). After her are Mark Tornillo (1954), Joan Osborne (1962), Donny Hathaway (1945), Julie London (1926), MC Hammer (1962), and Vanilla Ice (1967).