‘Kids in America’ singer returns to music because of UFOs

“Kids in America” singer Kim Wilde said an encounter with a UFO in 2009 was one of the reasons she decided to return to music and make a comeback.
                                                 

Wilde told the BBC after leaving the music business she got married and raised her children. However, two events pushed her to come back and give music a second chance.

Wilde claims she had an encounter with a UFO in 2009. She said she was sitting in the garden at her home with a glass of wine when she saw something.

“Then I looked up in the sky and saw this huge bright light behind a cloud. Brighter than the moon, but similar to the light from the moon,” she said.

“I said to my husband and my friend, ‘That’s really odd,’ so we walked down the grass and looked to see if there was any source. All of a sudden it moved, very quickly, from about 11 o’clock to 1 o’clock. Then it just did that, back and forth, for several minutes,” Wilde recalled.

“Whenever it moved, something shifted in the air — but it was silent. Absolutely silent.

The singer said she thinks about the moment every day and it gave her an idea for her new album, “Here Comes the Aliens.”

She sings on the album that maybe the aliens will “save us from the apocalypse.”

She said her career started to flatline in the 1990s when she became older and felt she could not keep up.

“I’d been in it since I was 20, then I was 36 and everyone, I felt, was doing it a lot better than I was. They had the ambition that I didn’t have anymore. When Madonna came along, I didn’t feel I could compete, so I said, ‘You know what? You’re best off being who you are, and that’s going to have to be enough,’” Wilde told the BBC. “Sometimes it was, and a lot of the time it wasn’t.”

Women in Music Comes to Miami

Women in Music held it’s first ever event in Miami with some 80 women in attendance, ranging from senior publishing executives to managers, publicists, concert promoters, songwriters and media executives. The turnout on a Friday night (Feb. 23) at Social Hive, an upstart video production and digital marketing company doing exciting creative work, signaled that Miami’s women in Latin music (because the vast majority were Latin) are more than ready to have a discussion about their place in the industry.
                                                   

The fact that many in attendance run their own companies after having worked for multinationals didn’t go unnoticed.

“When I moved to the U.S. there were a lot of women in the charts, and something happened and they disappeared,” said Paula Kaminsky, who was formerly VP of marketing for Sony Music Latin and now runs her own company, with Maná and Luis Fonsi among her clients. “I think the industry is not giving the support and patience women artists need.”

And because there seems to be limited space for women, they tend to compete with each other, added someone wryly.

But the tone on Friday evening was anything but competitive. Instead, it granted a rare opportunity to discuss as a group, and on many levels, how to move women’s issues forward in a positive and proactive manner.

Bringing Women in Music to Miami was the brainchild of Mayna Nevarez, who owns PR and marketing firm Nevarez Communications (clients include Daddy Yankee, Carlos Vives and Elvis Crespo) and met Women in Music directors at a breakfast at Midem last year.

Nevarez contacted Women in Music president Jessica Sobhraj and planned for a launch event in October that got postponed after hurricane Maria. On Friday night, global membership co-chair Cassandra Kubinski attended, and plans are underway to officially open a Miami chapter.