Genetic Superstar

If it ever came to betting on a future musical superstars, I would choose Natalie Ray, daughter of Chrissie Hynde and Ray Davies (sorry Francis Bean.) Born in 1983, I would think that the time is right, in fact, I'm getting worried. In this era of American Idol, and teen sensations, I'm afraid she's already over the hill. Try as I might I can't find any further information about the baby who was towed around the world during Pretenders tours, being exposed to god knows what, especially as Pretenders band members were dropping like flies.

While I know offspring of musical superstars don't necessarily inherit the gene of brilliance, see Ziggy Marley and Jacob Dylan, I would think having a mother who gave Sid Vicious his famous lock chain, shared a rehearsal space with Mick Jones pre-Clash, sang with the Damned in their pre-recording days, and mixed tough and tender like no one else, and a father who wrote better songs than the Beatles with a voice from another planet (in NP's opinion) would account for something.

I'm waiting.

By her own account, the birth of daughter Natalie Ray in January 1983 took Hynde "from rock 'n' roll goddess to straight-A student, from greaseball to mother's pride in 15 seconds. I never even picked up a baby before I had one. I just thought they were a load of Martians who had nothing to do with me," she told Rolling Stone. "Even when I was having the kid, when I was actually in labor, I kept saying to Ray, 'How do people do this? It's so bloody hard.' He was going, 'Yeah, but you're doing it!' It was like being initiated into a secret society." (Joyce Millman, salon.com, http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/04/06/hynde/print.html)