The Third Degree Burn is where each week we subject a different artist to a barrage of random and ofttimes fairly meaningless questioning. This week we ask Betty Bonifassi of Beast to feel the third degree burn.

Name & Rank: Betty Bonifassi, singer
Serial Number (Age): 38
Group: Beast

Let’s begin...

Where are you from (hometown) and where are you now:
I'm from Nice (south of France) and I now live in Montreal.

When did you start performing?
When I was 17 in bars with R&B bands..

What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given?
"Don't let anybody tell you how to speak in English, your vision of this language, mixed with your French that's your strength "Knaan (Somalian style...)

Favorite new song from the past year:
Crystalised by the XX

Your most favorite new group:
Art Blakey and The Messenger.... haha
I don't know, I guess I prefer the old fashion vision

Your favorite song of all time:
Don't Explain, Billie holiday

Group/Artist you’d like to work with most:
Prince

Last great concert you saw:
Talib Kweli at SXSW Austin 2009

Last great film you saw:
Belle de jour of Bunuel with Catherine Deneuve...

A popular band you think should be more obscure:
Strange question....

An obscure group you think should be more popular:
You Say Party We Say Die, a band from Vancouver.

Your favorite musical instrument:
The Nej, it's a traditional Persian instrument, beautiful!!

Your last performance:
Les Claypool at Québec, it was so refreshing and professional at the same time...I was very impressed.

Your favorite City to perform in:
Montreal

Your strangest fan moment:
A girl asked me one day after a show to sign her breast.....I was speechless.

Your favorite venue:
Metropolis, Montreal

If you had your own country what would you name it?
Sahar ...means Dawn in Persian.

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