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Tandy Culpepper Talks With Singer-Songwriter Susannah B About Music, Motherhood, Her New Album POV & More

She’s the daughter of a renowned Broadway composer and lyricist and the mother of two grown children, but now, at long last, singer-songwriter Susannah B is coming into her own.

She’s busy working on POV, her first album since 2008. Says Susannah, “I called the album POV because I’m now openly celebrating my age, feeling blessed to stand in solidarity with other late bloomers and to have enjoyed such a diverse career, with time off in between phases to become a devoted mom,”

Her mother, Carol Hall, wrote the iconic seventies’ children’s song, Free to be You and Me.” She also wrote the music and lyrics for The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, so Susannah has quite the musical pedigree.

But the singer-songwriter has not limited herself to music. She has an undergraduate degree in theater. Before college she acted off Broadway — versatile to say the least.

In this episode of The Hollywood Beat, Tandy Culpepper talks to Susannah B about her evolution, about her songwriting, and how her life has influenced the music she’s making.

Published by Tandy Culpepper

I am a veteran broadcast journalist. I was an Army brat before my father retired and moved us to the deep South. I'm talkin' Lower Alabama and Northwest Florida, I graduated from Tate High School and got botha Bachelor's degree and Master's in Teaching English from the University of West Florida, I taught English at Escambia County High School for two years before getting my m's in Speech Pathology and Audiology from Auburn University. Following graduation, I did a 180 degree turn and moved to Birmingham where I began ny broadcasting career at WBIQ, Channel 10. There I was host of a weekly primetime half-hour TV program called Alabama Lifestyles. A year later, I began a stint as a television weathercaster and public affairs host. A year later, I moved to West Palm Beach, Florida and became bureau chief at WPTV, the CBS affiliate. Two years later, I moved to Greensboro, North Carolina where I became co-host of a morng show called AM Carolina. The next year, I moved cross-country and became co-host and story producer at KTVN-TV in Reno, Nevada. I also became the medical reporter for the news department. Three years later, I moved to Louisville, Kentucky and became host and producer of a morning show called today in WAVE Country at WAVE-TV, Channel 3, the NBC affiliate. Following three years there, I moved to Los Angeles and became senior correspondent at the Turner Entertainment Reportn, an internationally-syndicated entertainment entertainment news service owned by CNN. I went back to school afterwards and got an MFA in Creative Nonfiction at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore. Oh, yes. I won a hundred thousand dollars on the 100 Thousand Dollar Pyramid, then hosted by Dick Clark.

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