This is an excellent autobiography by NYC music icon Genya Ravan. She’s led a very interesting life and tells it all in the book. She survived a Polish concentration camp, drug/alcohol addiction, and lung cancer (where the original prognosis was that she had 3-6 months to live – that was back in the early 90’s). Her music career spanned 5 decades as both a singer/songwriter and producer but, in the opinion of many, never got the credit she deserved. She founded the first all-girl band (Goldie an More...

Genya Ravan is definitely a survivor. Starting with surviving a concentration camp when she was a girl, then going through sex, drugs, and rock'n' roll, surviving addiction, and then surviving cancer.

Ravan was in one of the first all-women bands that played their own instruments, Goldie and the Gingerbreads. Then she fronted a jazz fusion band called Ten Wheel Drive, and then recorded several solo records. And she also did record production, including producing the Dead Boys and Ronn More...

Fascinating life story by a woman who has rocked since the early 60s. From girl group to record producer, Genya is still strong. The story begins when she was 7, with her family's escape from a concentration camp. Every stage of her life is a reiteration of that survival.

It is a fascinating look at the place of women in the beginning of rock and roll. Her account of the lower East Side tenement life in the 40's and 50's is riveting, as is her survival of the holocaust.

I love this woman.

She belted out songs like "Steve (Go All the Way With Me)" and "Junkman (I'll be Your Twilight Lover") in the 60's and 70's and I think she's still going.