Talented singer-songwriter (born Roberta Lee Streeter in Greenwood, Chickasaw County,
Mississippi, July 27th,
1944) who shot to international fame with the quirky and intriguing
Ode To Billie Joe[?] in
1967. After several more albums of increasing ambition and maturity - but failing popularity - she left the music business in the early 1970s to concentrate on business interests.