Betty Padgett is a singer, songwriter, and performing artist, who followed the well worn path from church choir to the concert stage. She realized at an early age her gift of writing songs and her love of performing before a live audience. Her repertoire of music includes blues, disco, funk, gospel, and R & B. Betty is a skilled singer, whose forceful raw energy and style of performance has captivated audiences from Florida to Europe.
During the disco era and beyond, Betty Padgett shared the stage with blues artist such as Gwen McRae, Joe Tex, Denise LaSalle, and Bobby Bland, etc. In 1974, she released her first album Sugar Daddy. The standout cut was "Sugar Daddy," a two-part disco groove that was pressed as a 12" record and became a regional hit, featured in a Pepsi commercial. In 2009, Luv N' Haight Records, reissued her first record, Sugar Daddy, thereby giving the album its first high-profile national release.
Over the decades Betty Padgett has released several albums with her original songs, 1981 Sweet Feeling, 1998 30 Second Man, 2004 Closet Lover, and 2006 Never Coming Home. In June 2018, she released her first original gospel CD, My Personal Walk With God. Her first contemporary blues CD, Ridin With The Blues, was released on January 1, 2022 with all original songs that are a soulful reflection of her life experiences.
Betty has released several single songs in the past two years with her most recent song, Jealous Woman, that will be released on March 29, 2024.
Today, Betty Padgett is very active writing songs, performing as lead vocalist with the Bobby Nathan Band, and at civic, cultural, and social events here in South Florida.
