Beth Nielsen Chapman
Beth Nielsen Chapman (born September 14, 1958, in Harlingen, Texas, United States) is an American singer-songwriter, mostly known for her numerous hits recorded by country and pop music performers.
Early life and history
Beth Nielsen Chapman was born on September 14, 1958, in Harlingen, Texas as the middle child of five to a Catholic family, an American Air Force Major father and a nurse mother. While Chapman was growing up, her family moved several times and settled in Alabama in 1969. While living in Germany at age 11, Chapman started playing guitar after her mother hid a Framus guitar as a Father's Day gift in her room. She also learned to play the piano at the same time she started playing guitar. As a child and teenager, she listened to a variety of music including Hoagy Carmichael, Tony Bennett, James Taylor and Carole King.
In 1976, Chapman played with a rock and pop group called "Harmony" in Montgomery, Alabama, effectively replacing Tommy Shaw who had just left to join Styx. She played acoustic guitar and piano as well as providing vocals for the group in a locally-popular bowling alley bar called Kegler's Kove and has returned to play in the area on an infrequent basis ever since.
Beth Nielsen Chapman (album)
Beth Nielsen Chapman is the second album by singer-songwriter Beth Nielsen Chapman.
Track listing
All tracks composed by Beth Nielsen Chapman; except where indicated
References
Podcasts:
Beth Nielsen Chapman
ALBUMS
- UnCovered released: 2014
- Back to Love released: 2010
- Prism released: 2007
- Look released: 2005
- Hymns released: 2004
- Sand and Water released: 1997
- You Hold the Key released: 1993
- Greatest Hits released:
- Beth Nielsen Chapman released:
- You Hold the Key released:
- Deeper Still released:
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by Beth Nielsen Chapman
Every December Sky
by: Beth Nielsen ChapmanEvery December sky must lose its faith in leaves
And dream of the spring inside the trees
How heavy the empty heart
How light the heart that's full
Sometimes, I have to trust what I can't know
Sometimes, I have to trust what I can't know
We walk into paradise
The angels lend us shoes
'Cause all that we own
We'll come to lose
And heaven is not so far
Outside this womb of words
With every rose that blooms
My soul is assured
It's just like a song I've known
Yet still unheard
And every leaf of fire lets go
Melting in the arms of earth and snow
And if I could hold you now
You'd enter like a sigh
You'd be the wind that blows
The answer to 'Why?'
You'd be the spring-filled trees