Biography
Charismatic Beauty Beth Hart appeared on Music Olympus in 1999, when the single "La Song (Out of this Town)" became a hit number 1 in New Zealand and entered the top ten compositions in the United States. A jazz singer who wrote songs for 10 studio albums fully revealed talent in collaboration with Gitarist Joe Bonamasi and became a nomineer for the Grammy Prize 2014 and the winner in several categories on Blues Blast and Blues Music Awards.Childhood and youth
Beth Hart was born in Los Angeles on January 24, 1972 and was so a musical child that at the age of 4 years old, the parents decided to organize piano lessons for his daughter from a private teacher. Starting from the classic works of Baha, Beethoven and Rakhmaninov, the girl soon switched to modern compositions and chose the immortal hits of Etti James, Otis Redding and LED Zeppelin Group.
Later, Beth recalled that with the work of jazz performers I was introduced to her mother, loved to relax to the music of Dina Washington and Billy Holiday. And the love of aggressive rock appeared because of his father, who left the family when the future singer was a teenager. Having survived the parting of the parents and keeping himself from the evil influence of the company, Beth graduated from school and entered the Academy of Arts in Los Angeles on the course of vocals and cello.
While the native sister began to use drugs, the future singer was addicted to creativity. At first it was clubs with open microphones and sights of talents, and then performances in Hollywood nights and visiting world celebrity concerts. As a result, Beth could not combine her studies with nightlife and refused to higher education, being deducted for systematic absenteeism.
This situation did not upset the novice singer, who in 1993 gathered a group called Beth Hart And The Ocean of Souls and won the Wocalists Competition "Star Search", having received a prize of $ 100 thousand. Behind the money won beta bought apartments and felt a star. Unfortunately, she failed to resist the negative sides of glamorous life, and the remnants of the fee went on alcohol and drugs.
Continuing to play in the clubs, the team of Hart dreamed of stadiums, and soon the consciousness distorted by the drugs led musicians to Santa Monica's streets, where they performed in the hope of being observed by someone from famous producers.
Music
In the mid-1990s, the biography of Hart and her team changed more thanks to the meeting with the showman David Wolf and Composer David Foster. These people became producers of the singer and helped conclude a contract with the Atlantic Records Studio to record the album "Immortal".The plate quickly won popularity and opened the road to the scene. Thanks to her, Beth Hart and The Ocean of Souls went to a tour with the legendary Scorpions, but did not stand the tense chart and after a few months broke out due to scandals and internal contradictions.
Beth hard worried parting with partners and was depressed until the case turned up to release the single "La Song (Out of this Town)" and play the role of Jenis Joplin in the Broadway musical Musicle "Love, Janis".
From this point on, the career of the singer went uphill. In 2003, Hart fell to the Koch Records studio and recorded the solo album "Leave The Light ON", which became a breakthrough on the European music market. Having received a platinum certificate, Beth won recognition and became the first and only performer who recorded the vocal batch in the compositions of the Great Deep Purple "Haunted".
In 2005, Hart collaborated with the Toots Thielmans group and released CD and DVD with their own concerts. And after 2 years, I presented the Studio Album "37 days", consisting of original songs and showed a new round in the work of the performer, free from depression and drug addiction.
Becoming popular and popular, Bet began to regularly appear in projects of famous musicians. In 2006, the singer toured with the British virtuoso Jeff Beck, and the 2010 it was heard on the iTunes-version of the solo album Slash "Mother Maria" and in the composition of Buddy Gaya "What You Gonna do about me".
In 2011, Hart, who had 4 albums in the creative assets, received an invitation to participate in the record records of the famous blustery of Joe Bonamas. Thanks to the equal contribution to the creation of "DON'T EXPLAIN" Beth chose and fulfilled pots on the favorite compositions of Etta James, Bonnie Bramlett and Arute Franklin.
Musician cooperation continued in 2013, after Hart recorded the song "Caught Out in The Rain", which included a disk track list called "Bang Bang Boom Boom BOOM". The new joint project was the Seesaw plate, thanks to which Beth and Joe received the "Grammy" nomination and were recognized as one of the best modern Blues performers at the Blues Music Award.
After that, Bonamass and Hart went to the mini-tour in Europe and gave 2 concerts at the Royal Carre Theater in Amsterdam. These performances became the basis for numerous video clips with the participation of the duet and in 2014, in full, the DVD and CDs were fully released.
At the end of the tour, the singer began working on the 7th studio album and on April 13, 2015 introduced the world of "Better Than Home", sprinkled by the dying of Cancer Michael Stevens. Hart was very worried about a colleague and was forced to work quickly. As a result, the record was completed in 5 days, but despite this, the record got into the top in European charts and headed the Billboard Hit Parad and ITunes Blues.
Without stopping at what happened, Beth during the year collected material for the new disk "Fire On The Floor", the release of which was held on October 14, 2016 in Europe and February 3, 2017 in the United States, and then in 2018 took part in the album record " Black Coffee, "who became the third joint project of the singer with Gitarist Joe Bonamas.
Personal life
Heavy childhood and unstable family setting imposed a print on personal life and character beta. Since childhood, suffering from a bipolar disorder, the girl aggravated the illness of drugs and alcohol. It was in such a state that Hart got acquainted with the future husband of Scott Hetkau, who worked by the road manager in the target team of the singer.
The young man immediately imbued with a sympathy for a fragile girl with a vulnerable soul and, by rumors, made her an offer in a narcological clinic, where Beth took place a rehabilitation course. Thus, Scott saved a star from suicide and with the help of producer and friend David Wolf continues to hold Beth in a state of remission.
After the wedding, the couple did not acquire children due to the intense work schedule and the tough health of the singer. Now the spouses live in Los Angeles and occasionally share with fans of private events, laying together joint photos and videos on official pages in Instagram.
Beth Hart now
In January 2019, it became known that Beth was invited to the 40rd ceremony of presenting Blues Music Awards awards. The singer was noted in 3 categories, among which the most valuable is the nomination of bi bi king, intended for an outstanding pop artist or performer.While there is a vote, Hart performs at Australia's concert venues, and after the presentation, the awards plans to visit America's cities and give a few special ideas in Europe.
Discography
Solo albums
- 1999 - "Screamin 'for My Supper"
- 2003 - "Leave the Light on"
- 2007 - "37 days"
- 2010 - "MY CALIFORNIA"
- 2012 - "Bang Bang Boom Boom"
- 2015 - "BETTER THAN HOME"
- 2016 - "Fire On The Floor"
Together with Joe Bonamas
- 2011 - "DON'T EXPLAIN"
- 2013 - "SEESAW"
- 2018 - BLACK COFFEE