Birth Name: Patricia Lee Smith
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Date of Birth: December 30, 1946
Ethnicity: Irish
Patti Smith is an American singer, songwriter, visual artist, poet, and author.
Patti is the daughter of Beverly (Williams), a jazz singer and waitress, and Grant Smith, a machinist at Honeywell. In her book Just Kids (2010), Patti wrote that she has Irish ancestry. It is not clear if she is of entirely of partly Irish descent.
Patti’s maternal grandparents were Frank Williams and Marguerite.
Source: Genealogy of Patti Smith – https://www.geni.com
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