Beth Nielsen Chapman

• Name — Beth Nielsen Chapman • Born — 14 September 1958 • Birthplace — Harlingen, Texas, U.S. • Genre — * Adult contemporary • country • pop • Occupation — * Singer • songwriter • Years Active — 1976–present • Label — * BNC • Reprise • Compass • Website — bethnielsenchapman.com

Beth Nielsen Chapman was born on September 14, 1958, in Harlingen, Texas. She is the middle child of five in a Catholic family. 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. 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. She learned to play the piano as well when she started playing the guitar. As a child and teenager, she listened to a variety of music including Hoagy Carmichael, Tony Bennett, James Taylor, and Carole King. 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. 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.

In the U.S., Chapman has never made the Hot 100 chart as a recording artist, although she had 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 had 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 No. 23 in 1993.

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 it 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 was engaged to psychologist and photographer Bob Sherman while living in Nashville. The engagement was the inspiration for her album Back to Love. In January 2011, Chapman married Sherman after a decade-long courtship. On December 9, 2022, Bob Sherman died from leukemia. She has one son, Ernest (born 1981), who is also a musician and has performed with her. In 2000, she battled breast cancer.

• Year — Album — Chart positions • US Heat — US Christian — UK — AUS • 1980 — Hearing It First — — — — — — — — • 1990 — Beth Nielsen Chapman — 19 — — — — — 75 • 1993 — You Hold the Key — 16 — — — — — 149 • 1997 — Sand and Water — 30 — — — — — 155 • 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 • US AC — AUS — CAN AC — CAN • 1991 — "Walk My Way" — 14 — 176 — 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" — — — — — — — — • 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 • 1990 — "That's The Easy Part" • 1991 — "Walk My Way" • "All I Have"

• Mother & Child (1995) – "Ave Maria" • Time and Love: The Music of Laura Nyro (1997) – "Stoney End" • Song of America (2007) – "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child"

Beth Nielsen Chapman is recorded with the occupation singer. Classed in the genre country music. Recorded as singer, singer-songwriter, songwriter, pianist and musician.