Daughter of a singer (Joyce Smith, of The Vernons Girls, in the early 1960s) and
rocker Marty Wilde (one of the pioneers of British rock'n'roll in the 1950s),
Kimberley Smith, known as Kim Wilde, was born in Chiswick (Middlesex, England)
on November 18, 1960. She enjoyed immediate success in the early 1980s with a
series of chart-topping hits, in the synthpop and new wave style of the time,
composed by her brother: "Kids in America" (No. 4 in France in 1981), "Chequered
Love" (No. 4 in the UK), "Cambodia" (No. 15 in France), "View From a Bridge"
(No. 15 in 1982), "You Came" (No. ...