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Patti Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American musician, singer, and poet. She came to prominence during the punk movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called "punk rock"s poet laureate", she brought a feminist and intellectual take to punk music and became one of rock and roll"s most influential female musicians. Beginnings She was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in New Jersey. Her father was an atheist and her mother was a devout Jehovah"s Witness (the intertwining of religious and sexual fervor that has suffused much of her work can probably be attributed to her upbringing). The family was not wealthy and, her formal education over at 16, Smith went to work in a factory – an experience she found excruciating. She also bore a child whom she gave up for adoption. In 1969 she left New Jersey for good. When Smith first arrived in New York City, she lived in the Chelsea Hotel with Robert Mapplethorpe. The two were lovers for a time, in spite of Mapplethorpe"s homosexuality, and they remained close friends until Mapplethorpe"s death from AIDS in 1989. (Among Smith"s other well-known lovers were poet Jim Carroll and Television member Tom Verlaine). She spent the early 1970s painting, writing, and performing spoken-word poetry—frequently at St. Mark"s Poetry Project. In 1971 she performed – for one night only – in the play Cowboy Mouth, a collaboration with the playwright and actor Sam Shepard (the published play"s notes call for "a man who looks like a coyote and a woman who looks like a crow"). Smith subsidized her career in these years by publishing rock journalism, especially in Creem magazine. Patti Smith Hoodies Sweatshirts Longsleeve tshirts, Lycra tops, Punk Rock Tshirts,at RockTshirtsPunk.com punk clothes, Heavy Metal T shirts, Emo Clothing, Goth clothes, Band T-shirts, Music Tshirts, rock t-shirts, Punk rock T-shirts, Punk rock Hoodies, Rock Hoodies, Cool t shirts, Punk Rock Cool clothes, Oi t-sirts Classic Rock Clothing 60s-70s-80s-90s Alternative Modern Pop Rock Music, Concert Wear Clothing.