Kim Sozzi was born in Durban, South Africa to a family of artists: her grandmother was an opera singer, and her grandfather was a jazz percussionist, and her father was a musician as well as owner and founder of an entertainment company. Her mother was a Hawaiian dancer. The family had returned to the U.S. when Kim was 3 years old Kim is of Italian and Puerto Rican descent. She is a big fan of French cheese and wine. During the late 1990s, she was headed in a singer-songwriter direction and was recruited by Sarah McLachlan to appear in the final installment of her Lilith Fair women tour festival in 1999. She is married to Derek Axelrod.
Kim Sozzi is an American dance-pop singer originally from Long Island, New York.