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Beth Nielsen Chapman
American singer and songwriter
Musical artist
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] She is a two-time Grammy Award and an ACM Award nominee and won the Country Music Association Award for Song of the Year in 1999 for writing Faith Hill's "This Kiss".
Early life
Beth Nielsen Chapman was born on September 14, 1958,[2] in Harlingen, Texas. She is the middle child of five in a Catholic family.[3] Her father was a major in the United States Air Force and her mother was a nurse. While Beth 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 for her father in her room.[4][5] She learned to play the piano as well when she started playing the guitar.[6]
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Born Alice Elizabeth Smith on October 29, 1967, Beth Chapman grew up in Denver, where she worked as a nightclub singer and a waitress. She was briefly married to Keith Barmore in 1991, and they had a daughter named Cecily.
After divorcing Barmore, Beth moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, to be with her future husband and fellow bounty hunter, Duane Chapman. The couple starred on Dog the Bounty Hunter from 2004 to 2012 and documented their 2006 wedding on the A&E reality show. The series spawned three spinoffs, Dog and Beth: On the Hunt, Dog and Beth: Fight of Their Lives and Dog’s Most Wanted, the latter of which marked Beth’s final onscreen appearance.
Dog and Beth had a total of 12 children between them and two together: daughter Bonnie and son Garry. In addition to Cecily, she had son Dominic from a previous relationship.
Beth was diagnosed with stage II throat cancer in September 2017. She had a tumor removed and subsequently announced that she was cancer-free. But in November 2018, she was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. She died at age 51 on June 26, 20
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Beth Chapman
American reality television star
This article is about the bounty hunter. For other uses, see Beth Chapman (disambiguation).
Alice Elizabeth "Beth" Chapman (née Smith; October 29, 1967 – June 26, 2019) was an American bounty hunter and reality star who co-starred with her husband, Duane "Dog" Chapman, on the reality television shows Dog the Bounty Hunter, Dog and Beth: On the Hunt, and Dog's Most Wanted.
Personal life
Chapman was born in Denver, Colorado, one of five children born to Garry Leon Smith (1937 – 2006) and Bonnie Joan Lawson (1940 – 2022).[2] In a Mother's Day address delivered at a church in an episode of Dog's Most Wanted, she claimed to have been raised as a Mennonite.[3][4] She trained as both a gymnast and ice skater. For some time she was a nightclub stripper, waitress and clerk.
Chapman spent the majority of her early life in Colorado before moving to Honolulu to be with Duane Chapman, whom she married in 2006 after years of an on-again-off-again relationship. They had two children together
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