She is rock. Chrissie Hynde has spent more than four decades combining emotional delicacy and interpretative ferocity in a discography that has drawn from the Stonian legacy, new wave freshness and punk attitude, modeling a trail of overwhelming songs, classics that still sound as lively as the first day.
Albums like "Pretenders" (1980), "Learning To Crawl" (1984) and "Get Close" (1986) explain the legend of Chrissie Hynde, the woman who emerged in the late seventies to become one of the most powerful female icons in the history of rock. She overcame in the early eighties the death of her guitarist and bassist in just two years, James Honeyman-Scott and Pete Farndon, and knew how to prolong the Pretenders' career with hardly any interruptions until today, with albums that are still as enlivening as "Hate for Sale" (2020) or the recent "Relentless" (2023). Music journalist in her younger years, partner of Ray Davies (The Kinks) and Jim Kerr (Simple Minds), tooth and nail defender of an independent career like few others, Chrissie Hynde arrives at Noches del Botánico accompanied by the efficient line-up of her last years, with James Walbourne on guitar and Carwyn Ellis on keyboards, boasting a perennial vitality.
