Poet and writer Patti Smith enjoys early seventies already known in the New York underground with her energetic poetry readings. Her work is peppered with iconic reverence for rock heroes like Jim Morrison, Brian Jones and Jimi Hendrix. Names to whom they also count when she begins to sing, and in 1975 makes its debut album Horses with producer John Cale. Horses have a strong garage-like sound, the
… backdrop against which Smith her epic texts half spoken / half sung vomit. They will not much later a prominent place in the New York new wave scene in 1978 and has even a worldwide hit with it, along with Bruce Springsteen song written Because The Night. For years, they then disappear from the scene in order to devote himself to her husband Fred "Sonic" Smith (MC5) and their children. Only after the death of Smith in 1996 they will return to the music front with Gone Again. Despite personal tragedy preceded the singer sounds this stronger and more inspired than ever. Patti Smith was the first singer to her femininity and unadorned with androgynous power connected with personal obsession and spirituality. A rock priestess imitation found in include Alanis Morissette and P. J. Harvey. (MR)more
