Patti Smith is a musician, writer, and performance artist. Patti rose to prominence in the 1970s for her influential work in the punk rock movement. She was known for her revolutionary merging of poetry and rock music, and has been called “the punk poet laureate”.
Smith was born in 1946 in Chicago. By 1967, she was a mother and decided to move to Manhattan in New York City. There she met photographer Robert Mapplethorpe who had a major impact on her life. SHe would go on to Paris where she would do performance art before returning to New York. She eventually found her way to music and began performing in 1974.
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