Susan Cowsill

Pop Singer

Birthday May 20, 1959

Birth Sign Taurus

Birthplace Ohio

Age 64 years old

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About

A member of the successful family pop band The Cowsills, she sang the group's most popular track, "Hair." She later became an acoustic guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for the rock band the Continental Drifters.

Before Fame

She debuted with The Cowsills when she was only nine years old, contributing to the band's albums We Can Fly (1968) and Captain Sad and His Ship of Fools (1968), as well as to the hit single "Indian Lake."

Trivia

She wrote, performed, and released a track titled "Crescent City Sneaux" in response to the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster, which had caused the death of her brother Barry.

Family Life

Born in Canton, Ohio, to Barbara and Bud Cowsill, she is the younger sister of fellow The Cowsills members John Cowsill, Bill Cowsill, and Barry Cowsill. With her first husband, Peter Holsapple, she has a daughter named Miranda; her second marriage, to Russ Broussard, began in 2003.

Associated With

In the 1990s, she and her sister-in-law and musical collaborator, Vicki Peterson, formed a music duo called The Psycho Sisters.