Shyness further limited her she retreated to a closet whenever she wanted to sing, even after everyone left the house. She wrote songs as a teenager but had no forum for testing them. While male friends were playing in garage bands in Akron and Cleveland, Hynde had to teach herself to sing and play rhythm guitar without the feedback of a band or audience. At an early age, Hynde adopted rock musicians as her idols-proto-punk Iggy Pop, guitarists Jeff Beck and Jimi Hendrix, English rock pioneers the Kinks, and Brian Jones of the early Rolling Stones her desire to be in a rock band spawned a fantasy world that became Hynde's refuge from what she viewed as the static nature of life in Ohio.ĭespite her early devotion, however, Hynde had to fight her way slowly into the real music world.
Hynde's father, Bud, worked for Ohio Bell her mother, Dee, worked part-time as a secretary.
Her upbringing took place against a typical blue-collar, Midwestern backdrop. Like other pivotal figures in popular music, Hynde did not initially fit neatly into the contemporary music scene, or for that matter, into her own band while the rest of the original Pretenders were English-the band is known generally as an English one-Hynde was born in Akron, Ohio. Her best lyrics, at once tender and tough, are a bracing change from rock's stock erotic fare, which often features a macho stud laying waste to the enemy." Newsweek contributor Jim Miller noted her attack on the sexism prevalent in rock lyrics: are memorable not only for the skilled way in which Hynde reworks stock riffs, but also for the matter-of-fact, unsentimental manner in which sex is described from the viewpoint of a woman with appetites and a will of her own. And this thing, this isn't an extension or a phallic symbol." Hynde has also insisted on being uncompromisingly straightforward in her music. She told Fred Schruers in a 1981 Rolling Stone story, "They're not looking at me like I'm some sex symbol or girl with huge tits bouncing around the stage. Even as she deplored her perceived lack of commercial "beauty," she was able to use this ostensible deficiency to her advantage-thus establishing herself as a serious songwriter and musician. Addresses: Record company- Sire Records, 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10019.Īs a woman breaking into rock, Pretenders founder and lead singer Chrissie Hynde offered a much-needed upset to the genre's domination by men. 1984 (divorced, 1990) children: (with Ray Davies ), Natalie, (with Kerr) Yasmin attended Kent State University, late 1960s to early 1970s), vocals, guitar. Members include Martin Chambers (born September 4, 1951, in Hereford, England), drums Peter Farndon (born in 1953 in Hereford drowned as a result of heroin intoxication, Apreplaced by Malcolm Foster ), bass James Honeyman-Scott (born October 27, 1957, in Hereford died of cocaine-induced heart failure, Jreplaced by Robbie McIntosh, 1982), lead guitar, vocals, keyboards Chrissie Hynde (born Christine Ellen Hynde, September 7, 1951, in Akron, OH daughter of Bud, and Dee Hynde married Jim Kerr (a singer), c.
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