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Beth Willson, hailing from Victoria, British Colombia, has always shown a love for music and singing from a very young age, though perhaps the decision to try and do it professionally didn’t occur to her until the age of eight. A few random contests at a karaoke bar in Brantford: Danny’s Ho Ho (which has since changed ownership), where she won her first singing competition, finally showed her that she had a talent that other people saw. So she began practicing more and more, eventually entering the Simcoe Country Open at 13 as the youngest girl in her category. She didn’t win, but ended up placing well above half the other girls there. This encouraged her to continued to pursue her musical interest all the way to high school where she naturally joined her school choir once she reached the 10th grade. It was around this time that her musical interests started to expand beyond the –at the time –popular radio airfare to include, not only a bit of country and pop music, but also an...