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About Me
self-chosen nickname
Beebs
life turning point
Kissing Iggy Pop and playing with his feet.
“My earliest memory was this little green radio I had. I memorized every song I heard." Bettie Black recalls growing up in the California suburbs. “I must've been 3 or 4 years old listening to everything coming out of my mom's car radio; lots of soul, disco, whatever; it got my attention.”

After moving to the Haight Ashbury in the 80's, Bettie began jamming with a lot of musicians from the vast wealth of local bands. “They liked my ideas and began encouraging me to write my own songs so one night I stayed up all night and by the morning had my first song. I was so excited; this opened the floodgates and songs just started pouring out of me.”

After a particularly transformative experience at a 1990 Iggy Pop show, Bettie realized
her destiny. “Iggy had the wild self expression I always wanted for myself. I knew there and then that music was the only thing for me.”

Her fascination of the theatrics of rock and roll led Bettie to pursue a degree in drama and performance at San Francisco State University. After graduation, she fronted several acclaimed bands in the San Francisco club scene such as Glow and Runaway Bunny. This led to her first record. Since then, she has continued to write new and innovative material, drawing from her daily experiences. “I feel like I have a channel within me that constantly sends me riffs and scraps of melodies.”

With churning guitars and driving bass and drums, Bettie's music provides a large and relentless backdrop to the undeniable and universal heartache of healing the human condition. The darkness of the music is punctuated by the ultimate confidence and strength of her words. There is no mistaking her voice. It's a clear and present, unbridled understanding of the struggle of the human spirit. “I am happiest when I'm writing and playing. It's who I am. I will never stop.” Bettie Black is preparing for her new CD release in June 2006.

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