Kim is one of those rare people who knows, even from earliest childhood, exactly what they want to be.

GUILHERME CORRÊA

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Kim was born in Hollywood Hospital, CA.

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Kim was 3 years old when she began to sing and record your compositions on her own record player.

    Kim Carnes, the only daughter of a hospital administrator and a promoter, she was born in Hollywood Hospital (Los Angeles, CA) on July 20, 1945, and she grew up in Pasadena (CA) - where she studied at Attend Pasadena City College. 

    Kim was 3 years old when she began to sing and record your compositions on her own record player. When she was 5, she played them on piano. Kim Carnes just knew she was going to be a singer. At the time, her favorite shows was "The Connie And Jack Reagan Show", which she watched every afternoon. It turned out that her parents went to a party at the home of the show's producer. When they came home, Kim asked them, "Did you tell him you had a little girl who wanted to sing on the show?" . Of course they said they hadn't. She was crushed, so they called him and the producer said, "Tell her to come on down and sing for us." So she did. That was her performing debut, on that show. As she recall, she sang "Buttons And Bows".

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Little Carnes sung on "The Connie And Jack Reagan Show".

    It wasn't much of a beginning, but it was a start. As a small child, Kim learned to play piano, an no sooner had she started writting than she began to put songs together. Kim is one of those rare people who knows, even from earliest childhood, exactly what they want to be.

    "I never had any other thought in my mind. I was gonna write songs, I was gonna be a star and a singer and I never thought of doing anything else." - she confessed to Steve Wosahla in a 1981 interview.