At the time, she was living in a women’s residence run by nuns.Īfter posing nude for Playboy in 1974, becoming the first fashion model to become a Playboy Playmate (Miss November), her controversial layout caused her to be fired by the prestigious Ford modeling agency. Shortly thereafter, she met musical genius Todd Rundgren.

Hitting the Manhattan music scene as soon as she arrived, Bebe’s passion, charisma and stellar looks propelled her into the limelight. At ten years old she began singing in the Villa Maria Academy choir sporting a unique “alto” that caught everyone’s ear.Īfter her high school graduation at age seventeen, she was discovered by super agent Eileen Ford relocating from her hometown of Virginia Beach, Virginia, to New York City. Bebe has the unequaled gift of being able to delve into a song and spark it to life with immediacy and poignant raw emotion whether performing her own works or her always groundbreaking choices of songs by other writers.īebe’s unique, multi-faceted talent manifested itself at an early age. Her lengthy and respected musical career has shown her to be an important artist with razor sharp musical instincts a singer, songwriter and performer with a power and command rarely seen in entertainers. It is almost impossible to capture the remarkable life and career of Bebe Buell in a few paragraphs.