Beth Nielsen Chapman

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Beth Nielsen Chapman
Chart positions
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Albums
Look
  UK 63 06/12/2004 (2 weeks)
Back to love
  UK 68 02/06/2010 (1 week)

Beth Nielsen Chapman (born September 14, 1958 in Harlingen , Texas ) is an American singer and composer .

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Chapman grew up as the middle of five siblings. Shortly after her marriage to Ernest Chapman in 1980 (according to other sources, the couple married in 1979) Beth Nielsen Chapman released her first album; the following year their son Ernest jr. born. In the following years she made a name for herself more and more and worked with many well-known artists, including Bonnie Raitt and Paul Carrack (1993) and Neil Diamond (1996). Since the 1990s it has been regularly featured in the charts, mostly in the USA.

Her husband Ernest died of cancer in 1994 and the album Sand and Water was created , which is strongly influenced by Chapman's feelings from this time. The theme song Sand and Water was sung by Elton John at many concerts in 1997 . Chapman himself developed breast cancer in 2001 . One of the peculiarities of their musical performance is the album Hymns , released in 2004 , on which hymns are almost exclusively sung in Latin . It reached the top 30 in the Christian and Independent Charts in the USA.

Discography

  • 1980: Hearing It First
  • 1990: Beth Nielsen Chapman
  • 1993: You Hold the Key
  • 1997: Sand and Water (guest artist including Bonnie Raitt , Amy Grant )
  • 1999: Greatest Hits
  • 2002: Deeper Still (guest artist including John Prine , Andy Bell , Emmylou Harris )
  • 2004: Hymns
  • 2005: look
  • 2008: Prism: The Human family Songbook
  • 2010: Back to Love
  • 2012: The Mighty Sky
  • 2013: UnCovered
  • 2018: Hearts of Glass

Film music

Chapman's songs are often used as film music .

Feature films

Series

  • Episode 2 in the 7th season of Emergency Room - The emergency room is originally called Sand and Water (German title: Waiting for a miracle ), Chapman's title of the same name can be heard there several times
  • this title is also in the representation of a funeral in Charmed - Magical witches played
  • in three episodes of the series Dawson's Creek "Seven Shades of Blue" (season 1, episode 6, season 2, episode 15) and "Say Goodnight" (final episode; season 6, episode 24) are played

literature

  • Erlewine, Michael u. a. (Ed.): All Music Guide to Country Music. The experts guide to the best recordings in country music . San Francisco, Cal .: Miller Freeman Books, 1997, p. 84

source

  1. ↑ Chart sources: UK
  2. ↑ Beth Nielsen Chapman in the US charts (Billboard)

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personal data
SURNAME Chapman, Beth Nielsen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Harlingen , Texas , USA