Kym Sims

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Kym Sims in an American singer born 1966, whose biggest success came outside her home market. Kym began her career as an advertising jingle singer before breaking through into the dance music market.

Working with 4-time Grammy Award-nominated producer Steve Hurley (aka Steve "Silk" Hurley) her dance anthem "Too Blind to See It" spent 12 weeks on the UK pop chart over the festive period of 1991/1992. Another song that Sims is well known for is her 1992 hit single "Take My Advice" which hit number 13 in the UK. It was a huge club hit. The same year a modest hit came with, 'A Little Bit More', number 30.

An album was released entitled (like the single of the same name) "Too Blind To See It". The album just about scraped the UK Top 40 peaking at number 39. The entire album was produced by Steve Hurley with co-production credits shared with producer/remixer E-Smoove (aka Eric Miller) and Grammy Award-winning producer/remixer Maurice Joshua.

In 1995 she released the single "I Must Be Free. In 1996, she released another single 'We Gotta Love', which was the last single of hers to be released physically on CD or Vinyl. In 2000 she released a single through MP3.com called "Just Can't Get Enough".

Contents 1 Songwriting 2 UK Chart History 3 US Chart History 4 Remixes

[edit] Songwriting

Kym Sims also co-wrote two of A&M recording artist CeCe Peniston's biggest US & UK hits, "We Got A Love Thang" and "Keep On Walkin", both were produced by Steve "Silk" Hurley. Both songs were international hits. In the US, both songs hit #1 on Billboard's Dance/Club Play chart, and reached the Top 20 of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart. They were also significant R&B radio hits.

[edit] UK Chart History

In the UK, "Too Blind To See It" reached #5 pop, "Take My Advice" #13 pop, "A Little Bit More" #30 pop, "We Gotta Love" #58 pop.

[edit] US Chart History

In the US, "Too Blind to See it" reached number 38 on the Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart, and "Take My Advice" reached #86 on the Hot 100. On the Billboard Dance/Club Play chart, "Too Blind to See It" and "Take My Advice" both peaked at #5, followed by her 1995 release "I Must Be Free" which reached #6, and a year later "We Gotta Love" peaked at #9.

"I Must Be Free" was also featured on Dance Mix USA Volume 3. While a few of her songs have been featured on various dance compilations, this particular collection was significant because it peaked at #71 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, which makes it the only album featuring a Kym Sims solo recording to register on that chart.

[edit] Remixes

In addition to Steve Hurley, the other remixers who contributed mixes to the commercial single releases of "Too Blind To See It" and "Take My Advice" were E-Smoove, and Maurice Joshua. The commercial single for "A Little Bit More" featured remixes by Hurley and Joey Negro. "I Must Be Free" was remixed by DJ Pierre and Love To Infinity. "We Gotta Love" was released with remixes by Grammy Award-winning remixer David Morales, as well as Band Of Gypsies.[[Category:Rhythmic Top 40 acts|Sims, Kym