American female singer/songwriter whose career spanned over 5 decades. Most famous as Essra Mohawk.
Born: 23 April 1948 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Died: 11 December 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Starting her journey in the music industry at a young age with a 1965 single released as Jamie Carter. She then met Shadow Morton who helped her pitch songs she wrote to the Shangri-Las (I’ll Never Learn) and Vanilla Fudge (The Spell That Comes After). In 1967 she met Frank Zappa in New York, after which she joined his Mothers Of Invention. This association led to the release of her first LP Sandy’s Album Is Here At Last on Bizarre in 1968. In 1969 she was discovered singing in a New York club by Mo Ostin, who signed her for Reprise. That same year she recorded her debut ablum as Sandy Hurwitz, released by Reprise in May 1970.