Out of Eden was an American Gospel music group often identified with R&B and contemporary Christian music. It featured sisters Lisa Kimmey, Andrea Kimmey-Baca, and Danielle Kimmey. The group was active from 1994 to 2006, producing seven albums through Gotee Records and receiving “Urban Album of the Year” and “Urban Song of the Year” at the Dove Awards of 2003.
The band consisted of three sisters Lisa Kimmey, Andrea Kimmey-Baca, and Danielle Kimmey, all born in Richmond, Virginiabetween 1975 and 1982 to Robert Kimmey and DeLise Perkins Kimmey Hall. When the girls were young, their parents divorced and they moved with their mother to Nashville, where DeLise was offered a teaching position at Fisk University. Danielle and her sisters initially sang back-up for their mother, who was a classical pianist. After their stepfather unsuccessfully attempted to garner attention for the girls by sending a video of their singing to various record labels, Danielle and her sisters were discovered by Toby McKeehan, who formed the record label Gotee Records to produce their music.
In 1994, they released their debut Lovin’ the Day. The first single off the album was a remake of the Bill Withers 1978 single “Lovely Day” and was a Christian Contemporary Music hit.[3] Their second album, in 1996, More Than You Know, was even more successful and catapulted the sisters into the CCM spotlight.
