Ellie Greenwich made a career in music at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Ellie Greenwich as American pop music singer, songwriter, and record producer (1940-2009).
Ellie Greenwich was born at Brooklyn in 1940. Her recorded nationality is the United States. She was educated at Hofstra University.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
She worked as singer-songwriter, composer and songwriter.
Music outlives its context more reliably than any other art, and usually for reasons its makers did not predict.
Her recorded fields of work are music composing.
Recognition followed: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2010).
Working from the United States shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have her, the language the work first appeared in.
Ellie Greenwich died in 2009, aged 69. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.
Achievements
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — 2010
- Educated at Hofstra University
- Worked as singer-songwriter, composer and songwriter
