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Patti Smith Patricia Lee Smith was born in the year 1946. She began her musical career in the year 1971 and has been an active musician, songwriter, poet and an artist. Smith musical contributions awakened her audiences to take a more active role towards activism and strong political stances against governments. Through her songs, she has brought history back to life because she occasionally uses her songs to praise renowned individuals and an example of such a song is the “Banga” talking about a famous explorer.

In addition, she has produced albums which feature provocative lyrics in a liberal way, thus influencing other artist to always pass messages through their songs (Tarr 119). Smith did not place a limit to the types of genre of music she played. The genre she used were rock, proto punk, punk rock, art punk and blues rock to compose different songs and relay messages to her targeted audiences. Smith played a number of instruments and this were the vocals, guitars and clarinets. Through her interviews, Smith discussed how her female indemnity affected her career and this is present in her memoir “Just Kids”.

Being a female, she admits to seeing herself as a woman only in context rather than an individual as she was sharing her life with a male partner. She points out she fell when her partner ventured into a new relationship with a different party giving her the need to evaluate herself and accomplishments as a person and not in the shadows of her partner. Smith admits that her freedom came when she decided to become independent as she embraced a positive attitude towards her music career. Moreover, she admits that being a female, she experienced difficulty in convincing other musicians to join her band as the society back then looked down on women (Tarr 119).

Work CitedTarr, Joe. The Words and Music of Patti Smith. Westport, Conn: Praeger Publishers, 2008. Print.