Smith and her siblings, Linda, Kimberly, and Todd, were raised by Grant Smith, the soldier pictured on the cover of her 2000 album Gung Ho. But decades later, the punk rock pioneer found out her biological father was named Sidney, a Jewish pilot who had died in 1965.
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Smith and her sister Linda eventually took genetic tests and discovered they were half-sisters. Smith’s daughter, whom she'd given up for adoption decades earlier, then helped her find information about her biological father, including a photo of him.
Smith was born at Grant Hospital in Chicago in 1946. In a 2020 interview with Interview magazine, she talked about her birthplace and her sweet relationship with the father who raised her.
“We always had money problems,” she added. “My parents struggled. My father worked in a factory, my mother was a waitress. And then they’d say something like a rally or some thing in Grant Park. And he said, ‘Yeah, that’s my park, Grant Park.’ And I would think, ‘How come Daddy has this big park and this big hospital and they’re having so much problems, financially?’"
"But the beautiful thing is I got to, in my father’s lifetime, play with my band in Grant Park," Smoth added. "I was very proud to play in Grant Park. And I called my dad and I said, 'Daddy, I’m playing in your park!'”
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