30/10/2025
Celebrating her 86th birthday today, who is the Bay Area contralto seen here in 1966 who formed her first band after a night at The Matrix, later ferried two signature songs into a new lineup and helped turn a certain “pillow” into psychedelia’s calling card? From a foiled White House “tea” stunt to a primetime raised fist on a comedy hour and an oft-credited first F-bomb on Cavett, ’80s chart-topping reinventions, and gallery walls—who is she?
