Chrissie Hynde is tagged as: female artists, christine hynde, girls with guitars, kickass females, the pretenders
Christine Ellen Hynde (born 7 September, 1951 in Akron, Ohio) is an American rock musician best known as leader of the band The Pretenders She is a singer songwriter and guitarist and the only member of the band to be constant
Daughter of a part-time secretary and a telephone company employee Hynde graduated from Firestone High School admits: "I was never too interested in high school, I mean I never went to a dance I never went out on a day I never got caught, it was pretty horrible for me but of course I could go and see bands and it was the start I used to go to Cleveland just to see a band so I was in love a lot of the time but most the guys in the band I had never met for me to know that Brian Jones wasout there, and later that Iggy Pop was out there made it kind of hard for me to get too interested in guys who were around me, I had uh bigger things in mind "
The" things "included Hynde's experiments with the hippie counterculture psychopharmacology Eastern mysticism vegetarianism and of course join or start a band soon enough Hynde joined a band called Sat Mat (which included Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo) while attending Kent State University Art School for three years Hynde was on campus during the infamous "Kent State gunfire "
