Lynda Carter, the Singer
By the time she was in high school, Carter had begun to take singing very seriously. She joined a band called Just Us, where she sang, accompanied by a marimba, conga drums, an acoustic guitar and a stand-up bass – all played by her friends.
But Just Us wasn’t enough for her, and at the age of 16, she joined two of her cousins in a band called The Relatives.
A year later, she would leave home and go on tour with the band.
Going Her Own Way
At the age of 17, Lynda left home and decided to pursue her singing career with the band, full time.
“My husband once asked my mother, ‘Why on earth would you let your 17-year-old daughter go on tour with a bunch of musicians?’” Lynda Carter told the New York Times in a 2018 interview. “My mother said, ‘Excuse me, have you ever tried to talk Lynda out of something she made up her mind to do?’”
At the age of 17, Carter was fiercely independent – but she wasn’t just going her own way; she was already forming a feminist worldview, and becoming a staunch activist.