Bobbie Gentry

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.