Joey Ramone — music (the ramones) with roots in the Russian Empire
Joey Ramone (born Jeffrey Ross Hyman) was the lead singer of the Ramones — the New York punk band whose stripped-down sound and leather-jacket aesthetic launched an entire cultural movement. The Ramones are universally credited with inventing punk rock and influencing every major alternative band that followed.
Tracing the roots — Russia (Jewish)
His mother Charlotte Lesher (née Mandell) had Russian-Jewish ancestry — her family coming from the Eastern European Jewish immigrant communities of New York. Joey grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, in a Jewish household, and the Ramones' music — outsider, alienated, propulsive — carries that immigrant outsider energy into the birth of punk.
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Russia (Jewish). At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.
A career defined by ambition
"Hey ho, let's go."