Godmother of Punk: Who is Patty Smyth?

Patti Smyth, (b. December 30, 1946, Chicago, Illinois). American musician and poet. She became one of the most influential names in the birth of punk rock with her first album Horses, released in 1975.

He combined the beat poetry performance style with garage rock. While she challenged the disco era with her unfeminine language, she also introduced American youth to 19th-century French poetry.

Smyth is widely known for her song Because the Night, which she wrote with Bruce Springsteen and peaked at number 13 on the charts.

Patricia Smyth (born June 26, 1957) is an American singer and songwriter. She first came into national attention with the rock band Scandal and went on to record and perform as a solo artist. Her distinctive voice and new wave image gained broad exposure through video recordings aired on cable music video channels such as MTV. Her debut solo album Never Enough was well received, and generated a pair of Top 100 hits. In the early 1990s she reached the top 10 with the hit single "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough," a duet with Don Henley of the Eagles. She performed and co-wrote with James Ingram the song "Look What Love Has Done" for the 1994 motion picture Junior. The work earned her a Grammy Award nomination for Best Song Written for Visual Media, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song.

In 2005, the artist was awarded the "Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" by the French Ministry of Culture for her contributions to literature and culture.

She was also inducted into the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" in 2007.

On November 17, 2010, she won the National Book Award with her memoirs, Just Kids.

In 2011, she became one of the artists who received the Polar Music Prize.

About her music

According to some, Patti Smith is an ordinary musician with a monotonous but not feminine voice and who sings every song in almost the same tone. What distinguishes her from others is her style, which stems from her tackiness.

Of course, the fact that she is a writer, that she does not hesitate to openly express her political views, and that her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe also contribute to the fact that she looks different.

So who actually is Patti?

Gloria, the first song of her debut album, is like a rebellious horse. In the song, Patti explains that Jesus died not because of the mistakes she made, but because of the mistakes made by someone else. She wants to get rid of all the deaths and sufferings that have fallen on humanity. She sings The Mermaid Song so that we can see the musicality in her voice. China Bird is a lullaby that you can sing to your child before going to sleep.

About A Boy is a kind of elegy written for Kurt Cobain. An elegy written for a little boy who will forever be 27 years old... The phenomenon of death has become one of the realities of Patti's life. She also re-sang Jimi Hendrix's "Hey Joe" by adding additions to the beginning.

The album Twelve is a 13-track cocktail made from your favorite drinks. Patti isn't the one making the drinks. The songs are popular songs of many famous bands. But how dare we ignore the talent of the bartender who mixes the drinks and gives them a new form!

And as for the song that dances with her presence, Because The Night is a song written for Robert. When she wrote the song, she went to Robert and said, "Look, I wrote a fun song, Robert, do you like it?" says Patti. For years, Robert complained that she always wrote sad songs. First her lover, then her friend, and towards the end, Patti gives the rarest thing she can give to Robert, one of the essential things she needs to continue with her life. Patti even likens the relationship between them to a kind of brotherhood in Çoluk Çocuk. Patti, who expands the concept of love to every extent she can embrace Robert, is one of the rare women in the world in this regard.