Kimberley Jane Walsh (born November 20, 1981) is an English singer and memb… Read Full Bio ↴Kimberley Jane Walsh (born November 20, 1981) is an English singer and member of pop group Girls Aloud.

Walsh was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, and grew up with two sisters and one brother in its Allerton suburb. She attended Sandy Lane First School, Stoney Lee Middle School and Beckfoot Grammar School and had her first taste of fame starring in an advert as a child.

In 2000 she tried out for the role of Maria Sutherland in the soap opera Coronation Street, losing out to Samia Smith. Later she appeared in the television series This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper as Gillian Oldfield, and in the same year she starred in a BBC Educational Schools programme called Focus. In 2001 Kimberley played Tracy in Dream Back.

While studying for a BA degree in English and Media at Trinity and All Saints College, University of Leeds, in 2002 during her second year Walsh auditioned for a reality television show dedicated to assembling a new girl group: Popstars: The Rivals. She and future bandmate Nicola Roberts did not originally make the final ten, but Walsh was brought back to the competition when original finalist Hazel was found to be over the age limit - she resultantly dropped out of university. On the show she performed:

"Baby Can I Hold You"
"Emotion"
"Unbreak My Heart"
"Chain Reaction"

Walsh was the fourth girl to be voted into Girls Aloud, much to the delight of her friend and new bandmate, Nadine Coyle, with whom she had become good friends during the course of the show.

While in Girls Aloud, Walsh has been popular among the band's male fan base. In April 2004, Heat magazine named her toned stomach as the fifth best in the world, ahead of superstar Beyoncé and singer Rachel Stevens. In 2005, Walsh was ranked forty-fourth in the "100 Sexiest Females In The World" list published by FHM magazine; in 2006, she was ranked at sixty-six.

Walsh co-hosted the 25 August 2006 episode of The Friday Night Project with Cheryl Cole and Sarah Harding, on which she did an impression of Pop Idol and X Factor judge Simon Cowell.

Somewhere
Kimberley Walsh Lyrics

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There's a place for us
Somewhere a place for us
Peace and quiet and open air
Wait for us somewhere

There's a time for us
Someday a time for us
Time together with time to spare

Time to learn, time to care

Someday, somewhere
(We'll find a new way of living)
We'll find a way of forgiving
Somewhere

There's a place for us
Somewhere a place for us
Hold my hand and we're half way there
Hold my hand and I'll take you there

Somehow, someday, somewhere

Overall Meaning

The song Somewhere, sung by Kimberley Walsh, was originally composed as a part of the famous musical West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein. The song beautifully captures the essence of hope and promises of finding a better place, time, and relationship with someone. The song starts by emphasizing the presence of a place where the two lovers can be together in peace, quiet and open air. The first two lines of the song 'There's a place for us, Somewhere a place for us' set the tone for the whole song, which speaks about the idea of finding a sanctuary where there might be open space to grow, laugh and live.

The song goes on to explore the idea that there is a time for everything, and one day there will be a time for the two lovers to be together. The song moves on to suggest that there will be time to learn and care for each other. The lyrics powerfully emphasize the idea that despite difficulties, people need to keep their hope and faith strong and seek the right time and place to make things better for themselves. The line "We'll find a way of forgiving, somewhere" underlines the fact that relationships are not just about having a perfect time together but also about understanding, supporting and forgiving each other's mistakes.

Line by Line Meaning

There's a place for us
There exists a perfect place, that's meant for us

Somewhere a place for us
That place is somewhere, not yet located

Peace and quiet and open air
This perfect place will be tranquil with peace and fresh air

Wait for us somewhere
We're hopeful to find this perfect place soon

There's a time for us
There's a perfect time for us to be there

Someday a time for us
That time is not yet here, but it'll come someday

Time together with time to spare
When we reach that time, we'll have all the time in the world to spend together

Time to learn, time to care
We'll spend that time learning about the world and nurturing each other

Someday, somewhere
There will come a day when we'll find that perfect place, no matter where it is

(We'll find a new way of living)
We'll change our way of life when we find that place, to adjust to it

We'll find a way of forgiving
We'll learn to forgive ourselves for the mistakes made in the past