Norma Tanega was an important if under-the-radar figure in the creative community of Claremont, where the singer-songwriter attended college on the cusp of the 1960s and returned in 1972 after ...

There was, despite the lack of subsequent commercial success, a second album. I Don’t Think It Will Hurt If You Smile was recorded in the UK and issued in 1971. Sales were low and it ostensibly ...

A new anthology of the ’60s folk singer suggests that she could have been a bigger star, had her label known what to do with her—and had she taken her career as seriously as her independence. And what ...

Cult '60s folk singer-songwriter Norma Tanega has died, The New York Times reports. According to her lawyer, Alfred Shine, she passed away at her home in Claremont, California on 12/29 after a battle ...

The highway of pop-music history took a detour on the backroads during the folk music boom of the 1960s. For a brief period, musicians could be celebrated not for making a big noise, but for crafting ...

Norma Tanega, during her 26 June 1966 appearance on British TV’s weekly pop show 'Ready Steady Go!' At that time, the nature of Springfield and Tanega’s sexuality had to remain a secret. The music ...