K. Michelle
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 K. Michelle in 2026 | |
| Born | Kimberly Michelle Pate March 4, 1982 Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Education | Florida A&M University (BL) |
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| Years active | 2009–present |
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Kastan Sims (m. 2025) |
| Children | 1 |
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Kimberly Michelle Pate (born March 4, 1982), known professionally as K. Michelle, is an American singer, songwriter, television personality, and actress. Commercially, she has earned three top-ten albums on the US Billboard 200 and three number-one albums on the US Billboard Top R&B Albums chart. In the US, she has sold over 5 million certified units.
Apart from music, K. Michelle gained further notoriety for her appearances on reality television, specifically on VH1's Love & Hip Hop franchises; starring in the first, second, and fifth seasons of Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta (2012–13; 2016), the fourth season of Love & Hip Hop: New York (2013–14), and the fifth and sixth seasons of Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood (2018–2019). From 2014 to 2017, she was the subject of her own reality series K. Michelle: My Life, which ran for three seasons on VH1. In 2026, she joined the cast of the seventeenth season of the Bravo reality show The Real Housewives of Atlanta.