Kim Wilde is a British pop singer, born in 1960 as the first child of 1950s Rock & Roller Marty Wilde and Joyce Baker , formerly of the British singing group the Vernons Girls. She released her first single, Kids in America, in January 1981. It was an instant success, reaching no. 2 in the UK singles chart and ending up in the top 5 all over Europe. The single even scraped the US chart.