Patricia Lee Smith is an American musician, singer, and poet. Smith came to prominence during the punk movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Some of her most well-known songs include “Because The Night” (1978), “Up There Down There,” and “People Have The Power.” 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 musicians.
Rolling Stone magazine placed her at #47 in its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. On March 12, 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Rage Against the Machine frontman Zach de la Rocha.
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