Early Life
She was born in Los Angeles to a Korean father and a German-American mother, who was a jazz singer. When she was a year old, her mother accepted a job offer to sing in Japan, where they went on to live for one year in the town of Kawasaki, near Tokyo. They moved back to Los Angeles in 1980 and eventually relocated to Chicago (her mother's birthplace), where Kimberly was raised for most of her childhood.
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