Beth Hart

At 52 years old, Beth Hart has this physical status:

Beth Hart (born January 24, 1972) is an American singer, songwriter and musician from Los Angeles, California.

She rose to fame with the release of her 1999 single "LA Song (Out of This Town)" from her second album Screamin' for My Supper.

The single was a number one hit in New Zealand, as well as reaching the top 5 of the US Adult Contemporary and Top 10 on the Billboard Adult Top 40 charts. Subsequent albums namely Seesaw and Live in Amsterdam by Hart and Joe Bonamassa debuted at number 1 on the Billboard Blues Album Chart, a chart she has now topped six times.

Hart has had two number 1 singles in Denmark, "As Good as It Gets" and "Learning to Live", as well a double platinum-selling album, Leave the Light On. Hart's first album with Bonamassa, Don't Explain, went gold in the Netherlands, while their 2014 collaboration Seesaw was nominated for a Grammy Award, and gave Hart her first Blues Music Award nomination in the category 'Best Contemporary Blues Female Artist'.

Early life

Hart was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. As a 4-year-old, she began to play piano. At first, she concentrated on classical works by Bach and Beethoven, but as she grew older, she also began to play pieces by artists such as Etta James, Otis Redding and Led Zeppelin.

Regarding her childhood in an interview with Don Wilcock, Hart stated, "When I was a kid, my dad left me in a bad way, and what fucked me up the most was that he would be in the lives of my other sisters and brothers, but he wouldn't be in mine." At the age of 20, Hart lost her sister from complications of AIDS.

Personal life

Hart is married to her road manager Scott Guetzkow, and currently resides in Los Angeles. Her manager is David Wolff. Hart has struggled with drug addiction and bipolar disorder, but has been sober for a number of years finding religion and practicing transcendental meditation.

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Career

In the tenth grade, Hart earned her a vocal and cello major at Los Angeles' High School for the Performing Arts. She began performing at first sight in the Comedy Store's Belly Room.

Hart began playing in Hollywood at the age of 15, and later enlisted bassist Tal Herzberg and guitarist Jimmy Khoury for Beth Hart and the Ocean of Souls, which was released in 1993. It features "Am I the One" (which appeared on her first album "Immortal") as well as a pop-rock version of the Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," which later appeared on her first official album "Immortal") and a pop-rock version. Immortal's first album was released in 1996 through Atlantic, scanting 13,000 copies and featuring the single "God Bless You." "Am I the One" was also included on the first DVD, which was released in 2005. The Beth Hart Band disbanded after touring the world, including at Lollapalooza in 1996.

Hart appeared on Ed McMahon's Star Search in 1993, eventually winning the Female Vocalist competition. Hart has claimed that winning the show did not guarantee her a lucrative contract due to the show's stigma, and that she had burnt through the reward funds she received by the time she signed a contract with Atlantic Records.

Hart's debut solo album, Screamin' for My Supper, was released in 1999 and featured "LA Song (Out of This Town)", a No. 1 in the United States. In New Zealand, one of the Top 10 Adult Contemporary Chart in the United States debuted, as well as a Top 10 Adult Contemporary chart in the United States. The song premiered during Episode 17 of Beverly Hills' 10th and final season. 90210's 90210's episode 17 featured the song. Hart was also playing the lead role in Love, Janis, an off-Broadway musical based on Joplin's letters home to her mother.

Leave the Light On, Hart's sequel, was released in 2003 via Koch Records after being rejected by Atlantic due to Hart's heroin use. Despite being a hit in New Zealand, the album saw her first appearance in the European market, with the single "Learning to Live" debuting in Denmark, while the album received a 2nd Platinum status. On NBC, "Learning to Live" was also used as the theme song to Losing It With Jillian. She made history by becoming the first and only musician to appear on a Deep Purple song ("Haunted"), which was released on the Bananas album in 2003.

Hart's first live album, Live at Paradiso, was recorded at a former church in Amsterdam and released both as a CD and DVD two years ago. It featured a collection of Hart's own writings as well as Led Zeppelin's cover of "Whole Lotta Love" (the entire Lotta Love) in the Led Zeppelin version. Hart appears on Toots Thieleman's album One More For The Road, the track "I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues" was released in 2006.

37 Days, Hart's fourth solo studio album, was released in Europe in July 2007, and later as a DVD. The album debuted at No. 1 in the United States. 1 in Denmark spent two weeks at the top of her country's first album to top a national chart, and she also earned a Gold certificate in the region. The album was her last on a major label (Universal), but it helped her to be a hit in Europe.

My California was her fifth solo studio album on Provogue Records, and it was her first on Provogue Records. Hart performed music at the end of the last episode of season 6 of Californication, with the title song of this compilation "My California." In the first episode of the BBC TV drama Waterloo Road, she performed her song "Take It Easy on Me" from My California on August 23, 2012. The album was released in the United States on July 31, 2012. She also launched Introducing Beth Hart, an EP on the same date.

Hart co-produced "Mother Maria" on Slash's iTunes version of Slash's 2010 solo album, Slash, and also worked with rapper Born on his single "It Hurts," which was released in February 2012. She appeared with Jeff Beck in 2006 and New York in December 2012, along with a group of blues/rock singers, who received a 2012 Kennedy Center Honor for her lifetime contributions to American culture. President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama gave the performance a standing ovation, and it led to a friendship with Buddy Guy, where he recorded the song "What You Gonna Do About Me" with Beth Hart for his album Rhythm & Blues.

Hart co-released "Don't Explain," the first co-release of blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa, on an album of blues classics in 2011. The album debuted at number three on the Billboard Blues Album Chart, and in the Netherlands, it went gold. She also performed on Bonamassa's Dust Bowl's track "No Love on the Street," which was also released the year before.

Hart's debut in Bang Bang Boom Boom in 2011 was one of her biggest commercial hits, debuting on at least ten countries' charts, as well as becoming the first woman to chart on the Billboard Blues Album Chart, gaining to No. 3. She collaborated with producer Kevin Shirley on the album "Don't Explain" for the first time. In the United States, the album was released the following year.

Seesaw was again produced by Kevin Shirley in 2013. The album debuted on the Billboard Top Independent Album Chart at number eight. Hart was nominated for a Grammy Award for Seesaw in 2014, and she was also nominated for a Blues Music Award in the category 'Best Contemporary Blues Female Artist'. The album has also ranked in the Top 50 on the Billboard 200, achieving the top position on the Billboard 200.

Live in Amsterdam, Hart's second live album/DVD, was also recorded in Amsterdam, Netherlands, this time at the Royal Carre Theatre. Hart and Joe Bonamassa performed at the Carre Theatre in London, Norway (Bergen, Norway) - Antwerp, Netherlands - June, 2007. Both nights were recorded and released on the DVD/LP/CD "Live in Amsterdam" in 2014.

In 2014, she appeared alongside Jeff Beck on his Australian tour as a supporting act, rather than accompanying him on stage.

In Europe and the United States, Hart's seventh solo studio album Better Than Home was released on April 13, 2015, in Europe, and the following day in the United States. Hart's recording process was "painful": the album was made by Michael Stevens, whose cancer diagnosis pushed Hart into completing the recording in fewer than five days. In addition to this, she visited a psychiatric ward twice while making the album. Nevertheless, the lead single "Mechanical Heart" debuted at number one on the "iTunes Blues" album chart, and the album debuted at number one in the Netherlands, and it debuted at number one on the album charts. The album debuted on top of both Billboard Blues Charts and iTunes Blues Charts in the United States. The album has also charted in other countries: number 11 in Germany and 33 in the United Kingdom. After performing the song live on Jools' Annual Hootenanny in 2015/2016, Hart and Jeff Beck released the single "Tell Her You Belong To Me" on iTunes on January 29, 2016. On the program, they also performed "Nutbush City Limits" as well. The album was rated as the fourth best blues album of the year at Mojo magazine at the end of last year, while Hart appeared as one of the narrators of Unity, a documentary film.

On October 14, 2016, Hart's eighth studio album, Fire on the Floor, was released in Europe, New Zealand, and Australia. It was announced in the United Kingdom on February 3, 2017, to coincide with her tour. Except for "Let's Get Together" (with Rune Westberg) and "Fat Man" (with Glen Burtnik), Hart wrote all of her songs herself, except for "Let's Get Together" (with Rune Westberg) and "Fat Man" (with Glen Burtnik). "Love Is a Lie," the album's first single, was first introduced first.

On January 26, 2018, Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa launched Black Coffee, which Kevin Shirley also made. The album debuted on the US Blues Chart and also in the Dutch top 100.

Hart's Live at the Royal Albert Hall, a live concert recording on Provogue Records/Mascot Label Group, was released on November 30, 2018. The recordings were shot in May 2018 at the Royal Albert Hall in May 2018.

War in My Mind, Hart's ninth solo studio album, was released on September 27, 2019 by Provogue/Mascot Label Group. The album became Europe's best-charting solo album, including in the United Kingdom, where it made it to the top 20 and Germany, where it reached the Top ten in a number of European markets, including the United Kingdom, where it debuted at the top 20 and Germany, where it reached the top ten.

Hart began hinting at new music in her Spotify canvas videos in 2021. A Tribute to Led Zeppelin, her tenth solo studio album, and the first single on "Good Times Bad Times" was released on November 12, with the first single. The album debuted on February 25, 2022, debuting at No. 222. In the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, her highest charting solo album has topped charts in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

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