Kim Sozzi

Kim Marie Sozzi, born April 21, 1976, on Long Island, New York, is an American dance singer of Italian and Puerto Rican descent.

She was raised in an artistic family: her grandmother was an opera singer, her grandfather a jazz percussionist, her father a musician and founder of an entertainment company, and her mother a Hawaiian dancer.

In the late 1990s she worked as a singer-songwriter and was recruited by Sarah McLachlan to take part in the final Lilith Fair tour in 1999.

In the early 2000s she released an album and several pop-rock singles; some tracks were remixed by New York dance producers, which helped them break into New York clubs and later succeed on the European scene.

For the European market, where her surname was difficult to pronounce, she used the pseudonym STYLES.

In 2004 the New York dance duo MYNT asked her to provide vocals on a house cover of the Mantronik classic, How Did You Know. Credited as “Mynt featuring Kim Sozzi,” the track was a major club and radio hit in New York—reaching number one on Billboard’s Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, remaining number one on KTU airplay for more than fourteen weeks, and becoming the station’s second most-played song of 2004.

Following that success, Kim Sozzi joined MYNT as a permanent member, released another single with the group, Back In Love, then left to sign with Ultra Records under her own name.

As a solo artist, her single Stay, released in early 2005, gained national attention. In March 2006 her cover of Brennan Heart‘s Alone received heavy rotation on the dance station The Beat on Sirius Satellite Radio.

Her dance-pop, described as elegant and extremely catchy, deliberately avoids rap influences. Her single Break Up (Cascada Mix) won KTU’s “Fresh Beats” battle on September 1 with 75% of the votes. Her vocal timbre and sound have been compared to 90s Canadian dance icon Emjay.

She later recorded a duet with Lucas Prata, nicknamed the “bad boy of dance”: a remake of Don't You Want Me, which premiered at the Mirage on Long Island for New Year’s and was planned for release on Ultra Records.

Her discography includes the album Just One Day (2009) as well as several singles that charted on Billboard’s dance charts during the 2000s.