Christine Ellen Hynde was born on September 7,1951 and is an American musician.
53 Facts About Chrissie Hynde
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Chrissie Hynde is a founding member and the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band the Pretenders, and one of the band's two remaining original members alongside drummer Martin Chambers.
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Chrissie Hynde formed the Pretenders in Hereford, England in 1978, with Pete Farndon, James Honeyman-Scott and Chambers.
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Chrissie Hynde has recorded a number of songs with other musicians including Frank Sinatra, Cher and UB40.
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Chrissie Hynde recorded her first solo album, Stockholm, in 2014.
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Chrissie Hynde was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005 as a member of the Pretenders.
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Chrissie Hynde was born in Akron, Ohio, the daughter of a part-time secretary and a Yellow Pages manager.
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Chrissie Hynde became interested in hippie counterculture, Eastern mysticism, and vegetarianism.
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Chrissie Hynde was caught up in the Kent State massacre on May 4,1970, in which the boyfriend of one of her friends was among the four victims.
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Chrissie Hynde attempted to start a band in France, The Frenchies, before her return to Cleveland in 1975, and joined a rhythm and blues group, Jack Rabbit.
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Chrissie Hynde returned to France in 1976 to try to form a band but it did not materialize.
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Chrissie Hynde left Kent for Michael Fradji Memmi, bass player of the Frenchies, which she joined.
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Chrissie Hynde returned to London in the midst of the early punk movement.
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In late 1976, Chrissie Hynde responded to an advertisement in Melody Maker for band members and attended an audition for the band that would become 999.
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Later, Chrissie Hynde tried to start a group with Mick Jones from the Clash.
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Chrissie Hynde spent a short time with punk band the Moors Murderers in 1978.
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Chrissie Hynde said, "I'm not in the group, I only rehearsed with them".
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Chrissie Hynde stated that "Steve Strange and Soo Catwoman had the idea for the group, and asked me to help them out on guitar, which I did, even though I was getting my own group together and still am".
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In 1978, Chrissie Hynde made a demo tape and gave it to Dave Hill, owner of the label Real Records.
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Hill advised Chrissie Hynde to take her time and get a band together.
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Chrissie Hynde is portrayed by Sydney Chandler in the 2022 Craig Pearce-Danny Boyle FX biographical drama miniseries Pistol.
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Amidst the ever-changing lineup, Chrissie Hynde endured as the sole original Pretender until Chambers' return in the mid-1990s.
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Chrissie Hynde was the only stable member of the band during this period.
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Chrissie Hynde continued with the Pretenders into the new century both in new recording as well as multiple tours worldwide.
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Chrissie Hynde was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005 as a member of the Pretenders.
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On March 9,2022, Chrissie Hynde performed a rendition of the Pretenders song "I'll Stand By You" at Night for Ukraine, a fundraising benefit held at the Roundhouse in north London, with the funds raised being donated to the Disasters Emergency Committee appeal, to provide aid to people fleeing Ukraine following the Russian invasion.
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Chrissie Hynde sang backing on a track, Nite Klub, on the Specials' eponymous debut album.
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Chrissie Hynde sang a duet with INXS on their album Full Moon, Dirty Hearts in 1993.
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Chrissie Hynde appears on the title track of the album.
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Chrissie Hynde sang the vocals on the track "State of Independence Part II" on a Moodswings album named Moodfood, which was played during the closing credits on the soundtrack of Single White Female.
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Chrissie Hynde provided backing vocals on Morrissey's single "My Love Life" in 1991 and again on b-side "Shame Is The Name" in 2009.
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Chrissie Hynde recorded a duet with Frank Sinatra on Sinatra's 1994 album Duets II.
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Also, in 1995, Chrissie Hynde sang a cover of "Love Can Build a Bridge" with Cher and Neneh Cherry.
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In 1999, Chrissie Hynde played guitar and sang vocals with Sheryl Crow on the song "If It Makes You Happy" during a concert in Central Park.
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Chrissie Hynde is mentioned prominently in the lyrics of the Terence Trent D'Arby song "Penelope Please".
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In 1998, Chrissie Hynde sang a duet with her friend Emmylou Harris, "She", accompanied by the Pretenders on the Gram Parsons tribute album, Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons.
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Chrissie Hynde supplied the voice for Siri, the clouded leopard in the movie Rugrats Go Wild in which she sang a duet with Bruce Willis.
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In 2004, Chrissie Hynde moved to Sao Paulo, Brazil, for a couple of months in order to play with Brazilian musician Moreno Veloso in an informal tour that lasted until December 2004.
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Chrissie Hynde bought a flat in the Copan Building in Sao Paulo city.
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Likewise in 2005, Chrissie Hynde duetted with Ringo Starr on a song entitled "Don't Hang Up" which can be heard on Starr's album Choose Love.
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Chrissie Hynde later joined Cave in 2010 for a rendition of Screamin' Jay Hawkins' famous song "I Put a Spell on You" as a benefit for the Haiti disasters.
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Chrissie Hynde released a new album, "Stockholm", on June 10,2014.
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Until 1978, shortly before the advent of the Pretenders, Chrissie Hynde had little idea what she sounded like.
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Chrissie Hynde then went back to the US briefly, before returning to the UK.
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Chrissie Hynde married Jim Kerr, lead singer of the band Simple Minds, in 1984.
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Chrissie Hynde follows Vaishnavism, a branch of Hinduism, and travels to India once every year to further her studies.
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Chrissie Hynde has described becoming a vegetarian as "the best thing that ever happened to me".
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Chrissie Hynde says that she came to regard meat-eaters with "distaste, almost contempt" but has learned to "live and associate with [them] but never respected them".
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Chrissie Hynde appeared in anti-fur trade organization Respect for Animals' commercial 'Fur and Against' in 2002, alongside Jude Law, Paul McCartney and others.
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Chrissie Hynde has publicly campaigned against the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States, and in February 2020 called on then President Donald Trump to "set him free".
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Chrissie Hynde published an autobiography, Reckless: My Life as a Pretender, on September 8,2015.
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In October 2018, Chrissie Hynde released a limited edition book of her artworks, titled Adding The Blue, the name being taken from the final track on her 2014 solo album, Stockholm.
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Chrissie Hynde opened the VegiTerranean, a vegan restaurant, in the Northside Lofts, Akron, Ohio in November 2007.