Cynthia Gooding

Born in Rochester, Minnesota on August 12 in 1925, Cynthia Gooding was a multilingual folksinger who made her name on the Greenwich Village folk scene in the 1950s. She discovered folk music as a teenager while studying guitar in Mexico and gave her first public performance for a radio station in Mexico City in 1945. After moving to New York in 1947 she became a regular in the Greenwich Village cabaret clubs where she was discovered by Jac Holzman who signed her to his label Elektra Records.