Biography
Patricia Lee Smith is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and poet who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the "punk poet laureate," Smith fused rock and poetry in her work.
Awards & recognition
- Princess of Asturias Award — the Arts · 2026
- Officer of the Legion of Honour · 2022
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize · 2022
- Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts · 2019
- honorary doctor of the University of Padua · 2019
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- honorary doctorate from the University of Parma · 2017
- Polar Music Prize · 2011
- National Book Award — Nonfiction · 2010
- National Book Award · 2010
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame · 2007
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres · 2005
Filmography36 titles
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
The Defiant Ones
Counting
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
West of Memphis
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Burroughs: The Movie
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
The Colbert Report
Saturday Night Live
Station to Station
Museum Hours
The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town
Joan Baez I Am a Noise
Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Ex Libris
The Rugrats Movie
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Big Empty
Turn in the Wound
Film socialisme
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Noah
Song to Song
Horses: Patti Smith and Her Band
WBCN and the American Revolution
Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
Benjamin Smoke
Little, Big, and Far
Ron Delsener Presents