Los Angeles native Beth Hart is a blues-influenced rock singer and street performer who made her debut in 1995 on Immortal which attracted attention due to her raw, outspoken personality as well as her gifted musicianship, heart-warming live shows and a voice similar to Janis Joplin. "Hart is the embodiment of a woman who is natural," wrote Chuck Taylor for the October 2, 1999 issue of Billboard magazine "bawdy and funny, chatty and free-wheeling in her selection of spiced words. But that's white bread contrasted with her onstage presence that is where the tall, athletic singer/songwriter dances and belts through songs with the intensity that is Mick Jagger .... At other times, she takes her seat at the piano or the center stage, sitting without a hint of pretense, with her legs crossed over the sides of a chair, her voice that is so tender and painful that you're unsure what she's going through and do you think you'll cry. Hart experienced similar reactions from when she first took on stage at amateur competitions when she was a teen. But, Hart was skeptical about the business of music before it was finally a success. Hart quit her band after she was unsuccessful in touring all over the world. Hart then spent nearly four years contemplating her feelings and finding solutions to issues through music writing. Then, ready to give her career a chance to shine, she returned in 1999 with the critically acclaimed Screamin' for My Supper, an album that saw Hart's songwriting skills mature through honest, vulnerable tunes about tackling life's problems.
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