taken from the bio on a portrait gallery from Americans who tell the truth “Pat Humphries was born in Ohio in 1960, not far from Kent State University. She started singing and playing guitar as a young child. In 1970, at an anti-Vietnam War demonstration at Kent State, where some of her sisters were attending school, the Ohio National Guard shot and killed four peaceful student demonstrators. It affected Humphries and her family personally, and at the young age of ten, triggered her dedication to activism….

As a teenager, Humphries traveled and performed with youth choruses and began playing in Cleveland coffeehouses, learning folk music. She left Kent State to pursue her music. As Humphries puts it, “the subject matter that I was singing about had been amply covered by other singers and I wanted to sing about something else. I left school, got a day job organizing arts events and started writing songs…I was affected by the feminist movement, the anti-nuclear movement, the farmworker boycotts, the lesbian and gay movement, the American Indian movement and the environmental movement.”…

Humphries has written social justice songs for women, migrant workers, anyone whose voices and stories need to be heard. She has traveled across the country, and to Cuba and Nicaragua. In 2002, NPR played Humphries' song “Swimming to the Other Side” on its' program “All Things Considered,” and suddenly her name was in the national spotlight….

Pat Humphries believes in the power of words and music as a tool in the struggle for justice. emma´s revolution played at the first ever Inaugural Peace Ball for President Barack Obama."