Kia Knoester

Kia Knoester (born December 12, 1991) is a Dutch and Indonesian singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles. Kia has written and recorded for several productions like the soundtrack of Netflix's animation movie "Fearless" (USA), G'Day production "Honoring Liam Hemsworth and Helen Reddy" & "Standing Together" (USA), series "The Madam$" (USA) and "The Walkers" (USA), movie "Help! I Shrunk My Friends" (Germany) and upcoming movie "Manifest" (USA). Last year she received the NAMM President's Innovation Award as well as the Ultimate Music Awards for Best Single-Pop of the Year and Best Female Artist of the Year. She was a top finalist in the IMSTA songwriting competition and the UK Songwriting Competition, and a semi-finalist in the International Songwriting Competition (ISC) and Unsigned Only Songwriting Competition.Kia received her undergraduate degree in Vocal Performance with honors from ArtEZ Jazz & Pop Conservatory in Arnhem (The Netherlands). She pursued an academic semester in Songwriting at the Cornel School of Contemporary Music (Los Angeles). Some of her previous mentors are: Izaline Calister, Michael Indart, Jessica Vautor, Carla Hasset, Abraham Laboriel, Paul de Castro and Oscar Hernandez. Kia received her Master's Degree at the California State University in Los Angeles for Vocal Performance where she specialized in Commercial Music. Show less «