Kelley Hunt defies odds with successful rhythm and blues career
1:21 p.m. Monday, October 6, 2008
Kelley Hunt has done what relatively few performing artists have been able to accomplish. She's created a life-long, financially self-sustaining career in the music industry. What's even more remarkable, is that she's done it in the world of rhythm and blues where a white women from the Midwest is a real anomaly.
"The things that appear to be against me were, and I'm not saying that they are, but they might appear to be. I'm from Kansas. I'm a woman. I write almost everything I do. I'm white, and, you know, add those things up, and I'm not a spring chicken any more," Hunt said.
Since high school, Hunt has paid her dues playing in bands and logging at least a million miles on planes, in buses and in the trusty white van she owns with husband/manager Al Berman.
"We used to be in that a lot more than we are now. Oh, Lord. Well, six of us would be in that thing. It's a 15-passenger van, pulling the trailer," she said. "But, fortunately for us now, we don't have to do that as often."
When asked if Hunt looked at those as the good old days, Hunt said she looked at those days as "golden" in some ways.
"And, good experience, because the people I've surrounded myself with, who work for me, are really good people," Hunt said.
Hunt's new CD, "Mercy," was released earlier this year. Learn more about it here.
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