When she was 16, she went to live in New York City and she enrolled in the Fashion Institute of Technology and she was living with an aunt. She did her best to understand Greenwich Village culture with Folk music sung in 1960s.  She made association with people who went to Cellar, which was an uptown hip club where stylish and young people were meeting.  The place had people from different races and who are involved in the arts like singers, actors, design students and models.  When she visited Cellar, she started to play records and talk to people.  She was also a model and she appeared in the photos of Glamour, Ebony and Seventeen.

During the times she spent in New York, Betty Davis met some musicians like Sly Stone and Jimi Hendrix.  She started to like singing when she became a friend of Lou Courtney who is a Soul singer. She helped her to produce her first single: The Cellar.  She got her first gig with Uptown in Harlem under Chambers Brother. Even if her album of 1967 was a success, she did not have time to concentrate on it because her modeling career was taking too much of her time.  Even if she became successful like a model, she ended up being bored by it. She said that she did not like modeling since she only needed good looks  and  no brain to do it and it lasts only while someone looks good.

Betty Davis met  Miles Davis during the year 1967 and their marriage took place in 1968.  Even if they stayed together for only one year, she introduced him to popular music trend and fashion and he said that she was the one to who made an impact on his future musical career. She introduced him to Sly Stone and Jimi Hendrix.  Miles’s song Filles De Kiliminjaro had a song dedicated to Betty and her photo was at the cover.

 Miles always taught that Betty and Hendrix were having an affair and this is why their marriage did not last for long.  However, Betty denies this even if Miles and Hendrix were close even after the divorce. When Betty is asked about the divorce, she says that she was too wild and too young for Miles. After the divorce, she went to London to pursue her modeling career and came back in 1972 to record the songs she has written while in London.

Betty Davis had been criticized because of open sexual attitude with her songs and the Song If I’m Luck I Might Get Picked Up was not played by many radio stations and this hurt the album. Her net worth and the salary she was getting from her modeling career are not known.