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Born | Harlingen, Texas, U.S. | September 14, 1958
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Years active | 1976–present |
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Website | bethnielsenchapman |
Beth Nielsen Chapman (born September 14, 1958) is an American singer and songwriter who has written hits for country and pop music performers. She was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2016. [1] Nielsen Chapman is two-time Grammy Award and ACM Award nominee and won the Country Music Association Award for Song of the Year in 1999 for writing Faith Hill's "This Kiss".
Beth Nielsen Chapman was born on September 14, 1958, [2] in Harlingen, Texas, the middle child of five in a Catholic family. [3] Her father was a major in the United States Air Force; her mother, a nurse mother. While Chapman was growing up, her family moved several times, settling in Alabama in 1969. [4] While living in Germany, at age 11, Chapman started playing the guitar after her mother hid a Framus guitar as a Father's Day gift in her room. [4] [5] She also learned to play the piano when she started playing the guitar. [6] As a child and teenager, she listened to a variety of music, including that of Hoagy Carmichael, Tony Bennett, James Taylor, and Carole King. [7]
In 1976, Chapman played with a rock and pop group, called "Harmony", in Montgomery, Alabama, replacing Tommy Shaw, who had just left to join Styx. [5] [8] For the group, she sang and played the acoustic guitar and the piano, performing at the popular bar of a bowling alley, Kegler's Kove; she has returned infrequently to play in the area ever since. [9]
Chapman had several popular songs on the Adult Contemporary charts in the 1990s, such as "I Keep Coming Back to You", "Walk My Way", and "All I Have". In 1993, she sang a duet with Paul Carrack, "In the Time It Takes".
A co-songwriter of Faith Hill's hit song "This Kiss", Chapman has written songs performed by many singers, including:
Musicians who have performed with Chapman on her albums include:
and her son Ernest Chapman III, on "Your Love Stays".
Chapman performed at the 2nd Annual "Women Rock! Girls and Guitars" special on Lifetime, singing backing vocals with Emmylou Harris, performing with the ensemble on a cover version of "Take It to the Limit", and on "There's a Light" with Emmylou Harris, Pat Benatar, Sheryl Crow, and Shea Seger singing back-up.
Some of Chapman's songwriting collaborators have been Annie Roboff, [10] Bill Lloyd, Eric Kaz, [11] Harlan Howard, [12] Joe Henry, [13] and Judie Tzuke.
In her native country, Chapman has never made the Hot 100 chart as a recording artist, although she charted eight singles on the Billboard Top Adult Contemporary Singles chart. She is tied for first place (with Marilyn Maye) as the artist with the most charted Adult Contemporary hits without ever reaching the Billboard Hot 100, according to the Billboard Top Adult Contemporary Hits book.
Chapman also charted one song on the Billboard Bubbling Under The Hot 100 Chart. "Sand and Water" reached Number 2 on the Bubbling Under chart, a position often listed as No. 102 on the Hot 100 in various Billboard singles books.
She is a significantly more successful chart artist in Canada, where she scored three Top 40 hits on the national RPM chart in the early 1990s. Her biggest Canadian hit was "The Moment You Were Mine", which reached #23 in 1993.
Chapman's album Back to Love was released in the United Kingdom on January 25, 2010, and in the United States on May 25, 2010. The album contained 11 new compositions. The single "Even as It All Goes By" closed out 2009 as BBC Radio 2's "Record of the Week" and was the only new single added to the "A list" of BBC Radio 2's playlist at the end of 2009. Additionally, Back to Love was BBC Radio 2's "Album of the Week" starting on January 18, 2010. The album Liv On was released on October 7, 2016, for digital download and on CD the next week. It features Olivia Newton-John and Amy Sky in songs about loss and moving on from grief. Chapman, Newton-John, and Sky toured across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland in 2017 in support of the album, performing mainly in smaller, more intimate venues. Her most recent album, Hearts of Glass, was released in 2018 and is available on CD and as a digital download.
Chapman has been widowed twice.
Her first husband, Ernest Chapman, died of cancer in 1994. The song "Sand and Water" was written after Ernest's death; Elton John performed this song during his 1997 world tour. The song was featured on the episode "Sand and Water" in Season 7 of ER (2000), as well as on the episode "Dead Man Dating" of Charmed (1998).
In 2008, she got engaged to be married to psychologist and photographer Bob Sherman while living in Nashville, Tennessee. [14] This engagement was the inspiration for her album Back to Love. [15] In January 2011, Chapman married Sherman, after a decade-long courtship. [16] On December 9, 2022, Bob Sherman died from leukemia. [17]
She has one son, Ernest (born 1981), [18] who is also a musician and has performed with her.
In 2000, she experienced her own battle with breast cancer. [19]
Year | Album | Chart positions | |||
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US Heat | US Christian | UK | AUS [20] | ||
1980 | Hearing It First | — | — | — | — |
1990 | Beth Nielsen Chapman | 19 | — | — | 75 |
1993 | You Hold the Key | 16 | — | — | — |
1997 | Sand and Water | 30 | — | — | — |
1999 | Greatest Hits | — | — | — | — |
2002 | Deeper Still | — | — | — | — |
2004 | Hymns | 21 | 29 | — | — |
2005 | Look | — | — | 63 | — |
2007 | Prism | — | — | — | — |
2007 | If Love Could Say God's Name DVD | — | — | — | — |
2010 | Back to Love | 15 | — | 68 | — |
2012 | The Mighty Sky | — | — | — | — |
2014 | Uncovered | — | — | — | — |
2016 | Liv On (with Olivia Newton-John and Amy Sky) | — | — | — | 72 |
2018 | Hearts of Glass | — | — | — | — |
2022 | CrazyTown | — | — | — | — |
Year | Single | Chart positions | Album | |||
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US AC | AUS [20] | CAN AC | CAN | |||
1991 | "Walk My Way" | 14 | — | 15 | 39 | Beth Nielsen Chapman |
"All I Have" | 12 | 90 | 37 | 49 | ||
"I Keep Coming Back to You" | 13 | — | — | — | ||
1992 | "Life Holds On" | 33 | — | — | — | |
1993 | "The Moment You Were Mine" | 37 | — | 21 | 23 | You Hold the Key |
"Say It to Me Now" [21] | — | — | — | — | ||
1994 | "In the Time It Takes" | 25 | — | — | 34 | |
1997 | "Sand and Water" | 22 | — | 47 | — | Sand and Water |
2000 | "Shake My Soul" | 26 | — | — | — | Where the Heart Is Soundtrack |
Year | Video |
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1990 | "That's The Easy Part" |
1991 | "Walk My Way" |
"All I Have" |
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