Kim Beggs

While many musicians move to the Big City in search of stardom, singer and songwriter Kim Beggs found both her muse and a growing following after making her home in a beautiful but remote section of Canada. Beggs was born in the town of Val d'Or in Quebec, and lived a nomadic childhood as her family moved from one mining town to another in northern Ontario. When Beggs was a teenager, her family pulled up stakes and moved to Toronto, but the city didn't agree with her, and she took her savings (all of 50 dollars), stuffed her belongings in a backpack, grabbed a cheap guitar, an...