Sam Bettens

Sam Bettens (2016)

Sam Bettens (* 23. September 1972 as Sarah Bettens in chapels ) is a Belgian musician in the United States lives. Together with his brother Gert Bettens he forms the regular line-up of the Belgian band K's Choice . He started his solo career in 1993 under the name Sarah Beth, and appeared as Sarah Bettens in 2003. In 2019 he announced that he would be named Sam as a trans man . His musical role models are the Indigo Girls and Shawn Colvin .

biography

In the early 1990s, Bettens played with his brother Gert in the amateur band "The Basement Plugs". Both were discovered and they were offered their first record deals. They released their debut album under the name "The Choice". They later changed the name to "K's Choice". Three studio albums were created, the single Not an Addict was particularly successful . When K's Choice took a year-long hiatus in 2003, Bettens began producing a solo album. First he brought out the mini album Go uit and in March 2005 the album Scream was released . In 2005 he wrote his first Dutch / Flemish title Leef , the theme song of the film of the same name Leef! has been. On January 23, 2006, a duet by Bettens and Stash was released as a single, I Need a Woman . In December 2006 he toured Flanders with Tom Kesten with the theater tour From Scream to Whisper . In 21 days, Bettens played 17 sold-out concerts. The album Shine , planned for September 2007 , was published free of charge with the newspaper in 120,000 copies on October 13, 2007 by the Flemish newspaper De Morgen in collaboration with Universal Music. This campaign was an extraordinary success, the newspaper was able to distribute 60,000 more copies. The Belgian purchase edition of Shine includes six additional live tracks. Two songs, Daddy's Gun and I Can't Get Out , were offered as singles. At the end of 2008 Bettens toured Western Europe with the theater group “Never Say Goodbye” . For these concerts alone he produced the CD Never Say Goodbye , on which mainly live recordings of the 2006 From Scream to Whisper tour can be heard. These include two cover versions: Cry Me a River by Julie London and I Can't Make You Love Me by Bonnie Raitt .

Bettens is also on the 2008 album October of Bløf with the titles Van veraf was het zo mooi , Labrador and Hoe long blijf each within? to listen.

On April 25, 2009 he was one of the guests of the Nekka Night . Here he sang Leef in a duet with Klaas Delrue von Yevgueni , De aarde in a duet with Jan de Wilde and Als je zomaar weg zou gaan with Zjef Vanyutsel. Bettens was also heard on the album Kingdom of Contradiction by the Dutch band Intwine with a cover version of Walking on the Moon by The Police .

Sam Bettens lives in Johnson City, Tennessee with his girlfriend Steph . They adopted two children together: Justin and Taylor.

Discography

See also : K's Choice

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		NL	BE F	BE W
2005	Scream	NL40 (9 weeks) NL	BE F14 (18 weeks) BE F	BE W97 (1 week) BE W	First published: March 2005 Executive Producer: Wil Sharpe
2007	Shine	NL44 (1 week) NL	-	-	First published: November 2nd, 2007
2009	Never say goodbye	-	BE F79 (3 weeks) BE F	-	First published: April 2009 Executive Producer: Wil Sharpe

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		BE F
1993	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	BE F6 (12 weeks) BE F	First published: January 1993 as Sara Beth
	Why Don't You Try Me	BE F6 (15 weeks) BE F	First published: October 1993 as Sara Beth with Frankie Miller
2002	Someone to Say Hi to	BE F44 (7 weeks) BE F	First published: June 2002
2004	Fine scream	BE F47 (1 week) BE F	First published: May 2004
2005	Not Insane Scream	BE F45 (2 weeks) BE F	First published: January 2005
	Leef	BE F16 (15 weeks) BE F	First published: September 2005
2006	I need a woman rock 'n roll show	BE F11 (12 weeks) BE F	First release: January 2006 Stash feat. Sarah Bettens
2017	Little Moon Rises	BE F27 (6 weeks) BE F	First published: January 2017 Stan Van Samang feat. Sarah Bettens

more singles

• 1993: The Ballad of Lea and Paul / Breakfast ( The Choice feat.Sara Beth)
• 2002: You Always Know Your Home ( Ozark Henry feat.Sarah Bettens; release: November)
• 2004: Go
• 2005: Stay
• 2006: Come over Here (release: April)
• 2007: Daddy's Gun
• 2007: I Can't Get Out
• 2008: De aarde (with Jan de Wilde ; release: January)
• 2009: I Can Do Better Than You
• 2011: Propere ruiten (with Yevguen ; release: June)
• 2012: Let You Go ( Ferry Corsten feat.Sarah Bettens; release: January)
• 2012: Wild and Perfect Day ( Rank 1 & Jochen Miller feat.Sarah Bettens; release: February)
• 2014: Dance with Me ( Venus in Flames feat.Sarah Bettens; release: January)
• 2016: Alsof we belangrijk zijn ( De Mens feat.Sarah Bettens; release: January)
• 2016: All I Want ( Niels Geusebroek feat.Sarah Bettens; release: September)

Web links

Commons : Sam Bettens  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website ( Memento of February 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
• Sam Bettens at Allmusic (English)
• Sam Bettens at Discogs (English)
• Works by and about Sam Bettens in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: NL BE ^F BE ^W