Los Angeles native Beth Hart, a blues-styled rock singer and former street performer made her debut in 1995 with Immortal, attracting attention for her raw, outspoken personality with a gifted musicianship, emotional live shows as well as a voice that was compared to that of Janis Joplin. "Hart is the embodiment of a natural woman," wrote Chuck Taylor for the October 2, 1999 issue of Billboard magazine. She's "bawdy and hilarious, chatty and fluttering around with her choice of spicy words. But that's white bread in comparison to her stage presence that is where the tall, athletic singer/songwriter dances and belts through songs with the intensity of Mick Jagger .... At other times, she takes her place at the piano or on the center stage, sitting without a hint of pretense, her legs draped across the back of a chair, her voice that is so soft and aching that you're left wondering whether she's about to break down, or if you will. Hart experienced similar reactions from when she first took to the stage for amateur competitions when she was a teen. But Hart had doubts about the music business when it finally became successful. Hart ended her performance after she failed to tour across the globe. Hart then spent nearly four years contemplating her feelings and finding solutions to problems with music writing. Hart was determined to give her career an opportunity to re-enter the scene and returned in 1999 with Screamin' for My Supper. The album that showed Hart's songwriting talents, with songs that were vulnerable and honest that dealt with the challenges of life.
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