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Bette Sussman | |
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| Occupation(s) | Television, composer, singer, songwriter |
Bette Sussman is an American television composer, singer, songwriter, pianist, and musical director.
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Bette Sussman | |
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| Occupation(s) | Television, composer, singer, songwriter |
Bette Sussman is an American television composer, singer, songwriter, pianist, and musical director.
Sussman was musically inspired by her mother and older sister, Sue. [1] After her mother signed her up for piano lessons at age four, she studied classical music till she graduated from high school, after which she attended the Oberlin College Conservatory. [1] When she had finished her first year, she moved to New York City, and studied with late jazz musician Sanford Gold, at age eighteen. [1]
When she was nineteen years old, she began her work as a musical director with a touring production of Godspell . [1] By chance, Dick Wagner met her, and introduced her to Tim Curry. She played on Curry's Fearless album and also embarked on her first major world tour with him. [1] She would later work as a musical director and a pianist for music artists such as Cissy Houston, Sarah Dash, Esther Marrow and Patti Austin, with whom she recorded a live album from the Bottom Line in NYC. [1]
Sussman toured with Whitney Houston, Cissy Houston's daughter, in 1990, and played on Houston's version of the Dolly Parton classic "I Will Always Love You" for The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album . Their version was a soundtrack success and sold over 17 million copies. [1]
Sussman's friend, award-winning composer and lyricist Marc Shaiman, got her in touch with Bette Midler later that same year. [1] She and Midler then worked together for several years and embarked on a tour together in 2003. [1] Sussman has also worked with Aretha Franklin and Dean Friedman.
In television, she performed on the soundtrack for the song "Christmastime for the Jews" in the 2005 Jack Black/Neil Young episode of Saturday Night Live. She also worked as a composer on the award winning daytime drama series, One Life to Live , from 1999 to 2000, and As the World Turns , for which she has garnered two Daytime Emmy Award wins and six nominations.
In her spare time, she studies with jazz musician Garry Dial, and plays with the R&B band, the Bev Leslies. [1] She is friends with bassist Will Lee, by whom she is nicknamed "Skeezer".
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