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hell
means lucky
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foreign
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uh
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welcome to hell it's a small village in
norway with a population of 350 people
we have normal things like the hell
river we have the airport two minutes
away
even shopping center we even have a
grill a small little
barbecue house called hell grill
but also of course the blues and hill
festival
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well we started the festival 1991 named
bullies in hell
7 000 people that have been including
more than 20 years now
this year we decided to give away the
booze in hell award
to sugar pie de santo she was living in
in the shade of
big bigger stars like at the james
but she's always been there
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i never thought i'd ever hear a town
called hill
i thought that was crazy he said well
sugar you're going to hell
the group they have a big picture
on the outside of the hotel i'm in i'm
on the taxi cabs
all over town i couldn't believe it
every time i pass when i look i said
oh my god there i am again
and again and again he said my god any
artist would be happy
you know and and excited that's why i
want to give them the best
i can give them
the blues is just something in it that
uh
makes you feel in some cases down
and then in some cases happen
devil's music yeah not the blue
i would call blue's life as it stands
happy sad whatever it is
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uh life goes on with z flat
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me and eddie james we were raised
together in
san francisco in the billboard
we made a group seven of diamonds and
johnny otis had a
set forever see she went and recorded
before
i did and then i just branched out
to do my own thing
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i've had problems in my life husbands
and girls whatever
but once i hit the stage it takes
everything away i want to give
all of them to the people and
it's just an explosive thing
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most of the blues artists
that have been around for a few years
they started poor they were more into
the music
than in for the money sugar pie is
definitely in that category two lady jay
please
was that just lady yeah and jay yeah
i only had one candidate this year and
when i brought this into the board
meeting was no one in that room that
ever have heard about sugar by decent
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besides the famous train station miss
universe made hell
famous in 1990
the beauty queen from hell
it was a bit weird for me coming to the
states and telling people that i was
from
hell and i just felt like it gave me a
lot of attention
i was a bit embarrassed to be miss
norway because
here that's kind of looked down upon we
have something in or we called
jante lo love it's a law that tells you
not to think that you are
anybody or anything more special than
the
person next to you
i just won the title when they asked me
if i wanted to do the david letterman
show i think what got me on the show
was me being the beauty queen from hell
so he asked me if
my father was the devil but it was so
exciting being picked up by limousines
and getting to have dinner
with uh james bond who was roger moore
when they called me as the new miss
universe i just i just couldn't believe
it
it felt like a bit of a cinderella story
because
i lived my very normal life in a small
small town
my mom helped me borrow some clothes
from a clothing store here that i was
going to return when i came back
i do think that a lot of people have
more talent in them than
they dare to live out
because they're worried about what other
people are going to say about them and
think about them
and i think it's time for us to be
allowed to think that we are special
everybody should think that they're
special
i've been recognized but never like this
and this was something else
this would be in my memory until i leave
this earth
so it's something to be honored like
that
you know i found a place here in hell
for me
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and when you go on stage you have to be
really stand out
you're supposed to have something
special
this is a move i want to stay in shape
and uh the only way i can stay in shape
was by jumping up
on a man and locking my legs
people said what in the world is going
on with that old woman
it was incredible the show i mean i just
did something that people like
but someone has to do that this is not a
big
town if you don't have any things like
that
it's
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oh you boring me
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i never knew
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i hate to tell my friends
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tell them where you are