13 Facts About Suzy Williams

Suzy Williams has been reviewed in publications including Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, and Los Angeles Magazine.

Suzy Williams's singing was referred to in Rolling Stone as a "mixture of Bessie Smith, Sophie Tucker, and perhaps a trace of Janis Joplin".

Suzy Williams was born in Oakland, California, and raised in Gridley, California by her mother, Barbara Artie King Liggett, an artist, pianist, and torch singer.

Suzy Williams's father, David P Williams, was a social worker and organizer who worked with Cesar Chavez and Ralph Nader, and performed professionally as a comedian in San Francisco in the early 1950s.

Suzy Williams started singing professionally following high school, mainly influenced by Harry Nilsson, Randy Newman, and especially Bessie Smith.

At eighteen years old, Suzy Williams moved to Boston, Massachusetts and met "Stormin' Norman" Zamcheck, a composer and boogie-woogie piano player with a degree in literature from Yale University.

In 1986 Suzy Williams formed a duo with her then-husband Bill Burnett as The Boners and performed regularly at Heather Woodbury's Cafe Bustelo in New York City.

Suzy Williams moved to Los Angeles in 1994 and started her solo jazz torch singing career with pianist Tommy Mars from Frank Zappa's band.

Suzy Williams later performed with Van Dyke Parks, Brian Woodbury, and Bruce Langhorne.

Suzy Williams appears in that footage singing the campaign song "Roseanne Barr None" that she co-wrote with Brad Kay and Brian Woodbury.

Suzy Williams turned down the title role in the 1979 film The Rose, and suggested it to Bette Midler, who took the role.

Suzy Williams is a professional cook, yoga teacher and political activist for local causes and the Peace and Freedom Party.

Suzy Williams married Bill Burnett, then of the band Long Tall Sally, in 1977.