Bellinda Myrick
Bellinda Myrick, also known as Bellinda Myrick-Barnett (born 1948), is an American singer and actress.
Early years[edit]
Myrick was born in Louisiana and raised in Odessa, Texas, by parents LaVerne & bluegrass performer Bill Myrick.[1] She is a niece of the late Louisianian State Senator W. Spencer Myrick.
Career[edit]
Myrick graduated from Odessa High School in 1966, and followed in her father's footsteps beginning a professional singing career while attending the University of Texas at Austin. She traveled with an International cast of Up With People during 1967-1968.[2][3] Myrick was awarded the titles of Miss Texas[4] and Miss West Texas and was chosen to be one of the six state title holders who accompanied Miss America Phyllis George as part of the Miss America USO Show to South Vietnam.[5]
Myrick went on to work at MGM Studios in Los Angeles, California where she lived for eleven years and was involved in charity work with the Thalians and Associates for Troubled Children. She performed as a singer and actress around the world, working numerous times over the years as a special guest star for Bob Hope, as well as Red Skelton and Willie Nelson.
Producer Hal B. Wallis cast Myrick in the leading role of "Ronnie" in the movie A Stone for Danny Fisher, a remake of the Harold Robbins novel of the same name, but Wallis died of a heart attack while the movie was still in pre-production and production halted.[citation needed]
Personal life[edit]
Myrick-Barnett finished her third novel to be published in 2009[needs update] and lives with her husband and two sons in Texas.[citation needed]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Still at the mic". Odessa American. March 14, 2010. Retrieved 30 March 2011.
- ↑ 2008 Up With People International Alumni Association Directory, p202
- ↑ "Singing Young People See The World On A Shoestring". Montreal Gazette. September 4, 1968. Retrieved March 30, 2011.
- ↑ "Featured Guest Bellinda Myrick". Mid Cities Daily News. March 9, 1973. Retrieved 30 March 2011.
- ↑ "Names in the News". Tri City Herald. 6 August 1971. p. 2. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
Sources[edit]
- "2008 Up With People International Alumni Association Directory". Harris Connect. 2008: 202.
- Gary Hartman; Gregg Andrews; Jimmy McWilliams (2006). Journal of Texas Music History. 6 (1). Missing or empty
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- Joe Carr, Alan Munde (June 1995). Prairie Nights to Neon Lights: The Story of Country Music in West Texas. Texas Tech University Press. pp. 198–203. ISBN 978-0-89672-349-8. Search this book on
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