Betty Buckley
Betty Buckley
Betty Lynn Buckleyis an American stage, film and television actress, and singer. She starred from 1977 to 1981 on the ABC series Eight is Enough, before going on to win the 1983 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role as Grizabella in the original Broadway production of Cats. Her other musical roles include originating the role of Martha Jefferson in 1776 and playing Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard from 1994 to 1996, in both London...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth3 July 1947
CityBig Spring, TX
CountryUnited States of America
T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary.
T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.
Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.
I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.
For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.
It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.
I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs.
Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically Im a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.
My two great loves are music and horses.
We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do.
Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.
The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.
It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.
Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?