Cynthia Gooding's lyrics & chords

Born in Rochester, Minnesota on August 12 in 1925, Cynthia Gooding was a multilingual folksinger who made her name on the Greenwich Village folk scene in the 1950s. She discovered folk music as a teenager while studying guitar in Mexico and gave her first public performance for a radio station in Mexico City in 1945. After moving to New York in 1947 she became a regular in the Greenwich Village cabaret clubs where she was discovered by Jac Holzman who signed her to his label Elektra Records. In April 1953 she released her first album Turkish A...read more