Dorothy Moskowitz

Singer, composer, and instrumentalist Dorothy Moskowitz is best remembered by fans of forward-thinking rock music as a member of the influential experimental band the United States of America, whose self-titled 1968 album made striking use of electronics and avant-garde composition techniques grafted to psychedelic rock. Moskowitz's vocals and lyrics were an important part of what made the group's only album memorable, and she would go on to a subsequent career that was impressively diverse -- she backed Country Joe McDonald, wrote music for the TV series Sesame Street, collab...