Kimberly Goss

Kimberly Goss (born February 15, 1978, Los Angeles, California) is a Korean-American singer and keyboardist, best known as frontwoman and co-founder of the Finnish metal band Sinergy.

Early life

Goss was born in Los Angeles to a Korean father and a German mother, who worked as a jazz singer. Shortly after, she went with her mother to live in Japan, before coming back to states and settling down in Chicago, where Kimberly was raised for most of her childhood.

Career

Before starting her own band she sang and played keyboards for Norwegian black metal band Ancient from 1996 to 1997, and during those years was also the touring keyboard player for Swedish symphonic metal band Therion. She also played live keyboards for Dimmu Borgir, having toured with them throughout the world in support of their Enthrone Darkness Triumphant album. She then went on to temporarily play keyboards for Children of Bodom during their 1998 European tour while their own keyboardist was occupied with school. She was in a long term relationship with and eventually married guitarist Alexi Laiho (who plays lead guitar for both Sinergy and Children of Bodom), but the couple separated in 2004. Although no longer together, they still remain close friends. They both share identical tattoos of a coiled snake around their ring fingers and also have each other's initials tattooed on the upper part of their left arms.