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A celebrated talent shares what she has learned from her experience. From struggling to get a career under way to dealing with her own personal doubts, Fleming is candid and articulate about her art, the roles played by a solid education, supportive mentors, and mental and physical discipline. Here is a look at the real life of an artist today, confronted by the loneliness of touring, the challenges of stress, coping with business issues, and, most...

Patti Smith is a renowned singer, songwriter, poet and activist. Her music, poetry, and politics are fearless, funny, raw and original. Traces Patti's punk-poet roots through the trials of daily life and untimely deaths that have formed her life and art. Touches on her early days in New York City and includes the people dearest to her, her family, and the political causes she champions.

Popular music owes greatly to the spirit of rebellion. In all of its diversified, experimental, modern-day micro-genres, music's roots were first watered by good old-fashioned social dissension- its incendiary heights pushed heavenward by radicals and rogue revolutionaries. And perhaps none are more influential and non-conformist than women. Always first in line to give convention a sound thrashing, women in music have penned sonic masterpieces, championed...