Barbra Streisand 1965 Barbara Joan Streisand (b. 4/24/42,) known professionally as Barbra Streisand, is an American singer, actress, and filmmaker. With a career spanning over six decades, she has achieved success in multiple fields of entertainment, and is among the few performers awarded an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT). Streisand began her career by…
Category: Women Music March 2022
Women Music March 2022 – Day 26 – Potty Mouth (Ally Einbinder, Phoebe Harris, Abby Weems, Victoria Mandanas, and also later Ali Donohue for 2014; and Kate Meizner as “touring musician”)
Potty Mouth. photo from The Fader Slapping the riot grrrl label on us just because we happen to be women playing a type of music that happens to be reminiscent of another era in time seems like a lazy conflation. — Ally Einbinder Potty Mouth was an American pop rock band, formed in Western Massachusetts,…
Women Music March 2022 – Day 25 – Shawn Colvin
Shawn Colvin, From Wash D.C 1995 “earth day “photo by John Mathew Smith For $30 I played four 45-minute sets. –Shawn Colvin Shawn Colvin (b. Shawna Lee Colvin on 1/10/56,) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. While Colvin has been a solo recording artist for decades, she is best known for her 1998 Grammy Award-winning…
Women Music March 2022 – Day 24 – Alice Merton
Alice Merton at Southside Festival 2019. photo by Mr. Rossi Alice Merton (b. 9/13/93) is a German-Irish singer and songwriter. Merton achieved mainstream success with her debut single, “No Roots.” She was born in Frankfurt, Germany to a German mother and an Irish-born father. Merton’s family moved frequently due to her father’s job as a…
Women Music March 2022 – Day 23 – Tammy Wynette
Tammy Wynette Tammy Wynette (born Virginia Wynette Pugh; b. 5/5/42 – d. 4/6/98) was an American country music singer-songwriter and musician and was one of country music’s best-known artists and biggest-selling female singers during the late 1960s and first half of the 1970s. Wynette was called the “First Lady of Country Music”, and her best-known…
Women Music March 2022 – Day 22 – Wendy O. Williams
Wendy O. Williams Thank you to whomever suggested Wendy O. Williams to me last year to feature this year’s in Women Music March! Wendy Orlean Williams (b. 5/28/49 – d. 4/6/98) was an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Born in Webster, New York, she came to prominence as the lead singer of the punk rock…
Women Music March 2022 – Day 21 – Billy Nomates
Billy Nomates. Click on the link to take you to Stereogum’s review of her song, “Heels.” the sky is so open i could just fall all the way apart no one will notice all that hurt wrapped around your heart they tell me its spring now i am so nervous for the things that grow…
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