Patti Smith

American singer-songwriter Patti Smith was an influential component of the punk rock movement in New York, especially in the mid-’70s when she released her debut album, Horses. Dubbed as “punk poet laureate,” she is known to have fused poetry and rock in her musical work. In case you don’t remember, she’s widely known for the song Because the Night, which reached the number 13 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart back in 1978, and number five in the United Kingdom.

When she was 19 years old, Smith got pregnant, but she put the baby up for adoption, thinking that she was too young to be a mom. Having no financial support and access to cash loans to take care of her baby and herself, she gave her baby up. Sadly, she and her child have not been reunited ever since. Even if it rarely happens that parents get reunited with the baby they put up for adoption, we hope the day comes that they find each other – intentionally or coincidentally.