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- NAME: Chrissie Hynde
- OCCUPATION: Animal Rights Activist, Songwriter, Guitarist, Singer
- BIRTH DATE: September 07, 1951 (Age: 61)
- EDUCATION: Kent State University
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Akron, Ohio
- Full Name: Christine Ellen Hynde
- ZODIAC SIGN: Virgo
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Chrissie Hynde came to fame as the frontwoman for the Pretenders. Hits "Brass in Pocket" and "My City Was Gone" became rock anthems in the 1970s and 80s.
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Chrissie Hynde - Mini Biography
A short biography of Chrissie Hynde who was influenced by the 1970s punk revolution and went on to become one of the first powerful female leaders of rock, famously with the band the Pretenders.
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Singer, songwriter, guitarist. Born on September 7, 1951, in Akron, Ohio. Chrissie Hynde was one of the leading women in rock in the 1980s and 1990s as the lead singer of the Pretenders. After studying art at Kent State University for a time, she took off for London, England, where she discovered the emerging new rock genre??punk.
The Pretenders got together in the late 1970s and released a self-titled album in 1980. Chrissie Hynde and bandmate James Honeyman-Scott penned the group??s first hit, ??Brass in Pocket.?? Subsequent releases produced the hit songs "Middle of the Road," "Show Me," and "Back on the Chain Gang" (from 1984's Learning to Crawl); and "Don't Get Me Wrong" (from 1986's Get Close); as well as 1994's "I'll Stand by You."
Chrissie Hynde divorced Simple Minds singer Jim Kerr in 1990 after six years of marriage. Together they have a daughter, Yasmin. Hynde also has a daughter, Natalie, with her former longtime partner Ray Davies of the Kinks.
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