Patricia Lee Smith was born on December 30, 1946, at Grant Hospital in Chicago to Beverly Smith, a jazz singer who subsequently worked as a waitress, and Grant Smith, a machinist at a Honeywell plant.
Patti was the eldest of the family’s four children, who also included the siblings Todd, Linda, and Kimberly. The family was partial of Irish descent.
When Smith was four years old, the family moved from Chicago to Germantown, Philadelphia, then to Pitman, New Jersey, and finally to The Woodbury Gardens area in Deptford Township, New Jersey.
Patti Smith’s top music
- Gloria
- Dancing Barefoot
- Because the Night
- People Have the Power
- Free Money
- Redondo Beach
- Dream of Life
- Because the Night
- Paths That Cross
- Frederick
- Peaceable Kingdom
- Ask the Angels
- Birdland
- Land: Horses / Land of a Thousand Dances / La Mer
- Because the Night
- Summer Cannibals
- Rock N Roll Nigger
- Piss Factory
- Everybody Wants to Rule the World
- Beneath the Southern Cross
- Pumping My Heart
- Pissing In a River
- Ghost Dance
- Privilege (Set Me Free)
- Looking for You (I Was)
- My Blakean Year
- Till Victory
- Kimberly
Patti Smith awards
- National Book Award for Nonfiction
2010 · Just Kids - Polar Music Prize for Popular Music
2011 - NME Award for Best Music Book
2016 · M Train
