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SWEET BEV PERRON
Bio…….
Beverley was born in New York City and raised on the north side of Chicago, Uptown to be exact. Born to hard working parents who always thrived on doing, providing and giving the best to their children.
Aside the hard work there was always room for music. Beverley grew up in a household filled with two generations of music. Her father was twenty years older than her mother. In his early twenties, he worked as a dancer in the USO dance hall in New York. The big band era music was his favorite. Along with jazz and blues. Her mother on the other hand, came from the 'Woodstock' era. For years she remembers Saturday mornings was cleaning day. While dusting the furniture and watering the plants, Janis Joplin would be wailing in the background coming from the reel-to-reel recorder. Sunday's were her fathers day. If he wasn't down at Maxwell Street early in the morning then it was a 'family day'. Big band music day. Sunday morning's Bev would wake up to… Benny Goodman, The Dorsey Brothers, Cab Calloway and The Duke Ellington's Orchestra. Not only did she wake up to the music, she would wake to dancing, Her father taught her how to swing, she was his dance partner for years!
As the story goes, 'life' sets in. She grows up, finishes school, goes to work. Meets a boy, falls in love. Boy joins Air Force, They get married. Learns how to be a stay at home mom while husband is serving our country around the world. Life is good. While living in Alaska, Bev went to work. She landed herself a D.J. position at KYMG Magic 98.5, No Rap, No Rock. That was their commercial. She started out being a secretary to the big guy, all was good. Then one day, he approached her with an offer she couldn't refuse. Midnight D.J. spot! To this day, she claims it was the best job she ever had.
'Real-life' stepped in and her husband was medically retired. Suddenly they're back 'home'. Suddenly they found themselves as civilians. Bev found herself as a d.j. at bars, weddings, parties and karaoke d.j. where she would have to sing…once again-music was in her life. A few months had gone by and Bev was singing in a band. A passion had been awakened.
Years of hitting jams and schooling herself, learning music and meeting many musicians is what she credits to where she's at now. She paid her dues and still pays them. Humble beginnings are never far from her mind. Singing on a corner with a two piece band, (they didn't have a bass player) working for $25 dollars and an ice cream cone. Which later became a song she wrote. It was easy she say's because it was real. It was a few years ago when she got a gig singing at a car show in front of the local Dairy Queen. Looking back now, that was just another chapter in her book called 'Dues'.
Bev still continues playing the local scene and has recently caught the attention of Europe. She was offered a summer full of shows and completed a mini tour with Max Dega of Switzerland. She toured between southern Switzerland and northern Italy. Since then she has honed in on a style that is non other but her own. She was just mentioned in an article as the magazine's number one fave pick of the year in the blues genre. Sweet Bev Perron is what she goes by….given respectively by another blues artist, Glen Davis. A few years back Sweet Bev performed at Kingston Mines in Chicago for a benefit that Koko Taylor was in fact the mastermind behind it. After Bev's performance Miss Koko had called her over to where she was sitting. She asked Bev to sit down by her, she said, "Sweet, you knocked my sock's off!" Bev thanked her, and said, "I'm just getting' started"
Blessed are the Sleepless, as they bask in wakeful dreaming.
Blessed are the Artists, for in their hands the impossible is made real.
Blessed are the Musicians, for in their ears they hear the music of the soul.
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SCORPIO
Oct 23 - Nov 21
Passionate and complex, Scorpio reigns as the sexiest sign of the zodiac.
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I had my palm read, this is the result: Eventful and fulfilling life
Eventful and fulfilling life: Your hands tell you that you will have an eventful and fulfilling life in which you enjoy exciting successful career and personal moves and the fact that you are making a tangible impact on people around you. You will find constant changing factors around you and at times you may feel tired having to keep up with them, but you will always feel fulfilled looking back at the things you've accomplished.
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