Crushes - Musik

Alix Dobkin Born Alix Cecil Dobkin On 16 August 1940 Died 19 May 2021 Was An American Folk Singer-Songwriter Memoirist And Lesbian Feminist Activist. In 1979 She Was The First American Lesbian Feminist Musician To Do A European Concert Tour. Dobkin Was Born In New York City And Raised In Philadelphia. She Graduated From Germantown High School In 1958 And The Tyler School Of Art With A Bachelor Of Fine Arts Degree In 1962. She Began Performing The Greenwich Village Coffeehouse Scene In The Early '60s. She Played With Greats Like Bob Dylan And Buffy Sainte-Marie. Dobkin Briefly Married A Man In The Late 1960s The Marriage Producing A Daughter. In 1972 Dobkin Came Out As A Lesbian Something Very Uncommon For A Public Personality To Do At The Time. Starting In 1973 She Released A Number Of Albums As Well As A Songbook And Toured Throughout The U.S. Canada England Scotland Ireland Australia And New Zealand Promoting Lesbian Culture And Community Through Women's Music. Dobkin Garnered A Small But Devoted Cult Audience. She Gained Some Unexpected And Not Entirely Welcome Fame In The Eighties When Comedians Like David Letterman And Howard Stern Tracked Down The "Lavender Jane Loves Women" Album And Began Playing It On The Air. Her Warbling Vocal Style And Oh-So-Earnest "Lesbian Lesbian Any Woman Can Be A Lesbian" Lyrics Made Her A Somewhat Easy Target For Satire. By The 21st Century Dobkin Had Ceased Writing And Recording New Material But Continued To Tour Until Her Death. read less