Christine Ellen “Chrissie” Hynde is an American musician famous for being a founding member and lead guitarist of the rock band ‘The Pretenders’. The band came to fame with the hits ‘Brass in Pocket’ and ‘My City Was Gone’, which became rock anthems in the 1970s and 1980s. Also a singer and songwriter, Hynde co-wrote ‘Brass in Pocket’ with band mate James Honeyman-Scott. The band’s singles like ‘Middle of the Road’, ‘Show Me’ and ‘I'll Stand by You’ were also big time hits. Inspired by hippie counter-culture, Hynde ruled the rock landscape as a leading woman from the late 1970s till the early 1990s. She uniquely merged different strains of music and guitar rock to create her own sound. She follows Vaishnavism, a branch of Hinduism, and is a vegetarian. She feels that becoming a vegetarian was the best thing that has ever happened to her. She published her autobiography ‘Reckless: My Life as a Pretender’ in 2015.
