Summary
Say her name and it sounds as country as hay bales. But although she grew up in Texas, BettySoo doesn't fit the typical image of an Americana singer-songwriter. For a start she's from a Korean family - yes, her dad really is a boy named Soo - and there seem to be no skeletons in her closet, none of the unhappy upbringing, failed marriages, or crack-house or gin-house dalliances that often go hand in hand with putting your soul into three chords and the truth.
She can't even say that, in hitting the road and releasing a series of five CDs so far, she's doing what she always wanted to do. Because she didn't even think about being a singer until her mentor at graduate school, where she was studying for her masters in counselling, sat her down and told her: "Everybody but you seems to know that you want to have a career in music."See the full content of this document
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A Shove Into Stardom
"I thought that was pretty weird," she says. "I mean, we're a musical family. My mother has a lovely voice and my two older sisters were very accomplished instrumentalists at a young age. We were typical Korean-Americans: we all took music lessons but my parents expected us al...
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