KLONDIKE KATES BIOGRAPHIES

KIMBERLY OBERT TSOUKALAS

2003 KLONDIKE KATE (Click on Photo to Enlarge)

Kimberly Obert Tsoukalas, Klondike Kate 2003, was raised at Stanley, North Dakota. Kim has been performing since she was 3 years old in dance, pageants, speech and music. In her younger years, she won titles such as Miss North Dakota Pre-teen, Cinderella Teen, North Dakota Sr. Teen Miss Pride, and won Miss Congeniality 7 times. In the summer of 1985, she auditioned and was chosen to traveled Europe with the International Ambassadors of Music Choir.

Kimberly attended college at UND Grand Forks and was a member of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority and involved with dance and women’s choir. She has been living in Minneapolis since 1989 and is currently a Sales Manager of The Nycor Group, which is a contract and search firm in Edina which specializes in placing quality candidates in companies.

Kim was a front row dancer/singer in a Barbershop chorus, City of Lakes, which consistently placed in the top 5 Internationally for the last 9 years where she sang bass. Kim’s interests include Improv, Toastmasters, Piano, dance lessons, running, and she enjoys travel, shopping, friends, interior decorating, piano bars, and theatre. Kim currently performs as a torch singer at Lili’s downtown Minneapolis as Kiki Labelle.

Kim became interested in Klondike Kate when one of her customers, who was a Vulcan, found out she was a performer and encouraged her to check it out. She went and observed her first contest in 1999 and was hooked. Kim loves to play dress up, entertain and make people smile and what better way then to be Kate! She also loves being involved with such a fun organization like the Kate’s where she can perform solo and part of a group. Being a part of the Kate sisterhood is really special. During her reigning year, she made over 300 appearances and traveled to Florida, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Canada, South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota with her Royal Family and Vulcan Krewe. Since then, she has also judged some of the pageants and is involved with the Rice Street Festival as the emcee for their talent show. "Being Kate was one of the things I cherish most in my life and I am so blessed to have this experience! I know my life will never be the same."