Kim Rene Nalley (born 1969) is an American jazz and blues singer with a 3½ octave range.
Raised in New Haven, Connecticut, Nalley is from a musical family that includes jazz drummer and photographer Reggie Jackson, she received piano lessons from her great-grandmother. She attended Educational Center for the Arts (ECA) in New Haven.
Nalley switched to jazz shortly after moving to San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1980s, where she... meer