Lin Van Hek (born 1944 as Lyn Whitehead) (aka Lin Van Hecke) is an Australian writer, member of the Society of Women Writers and is the co-founder of a literary-music group called Difficult Women. Van Hek was born in Melbourne, residing in Europe and India for some years. Van Hek is a singer, songwriter, novelist, poet and a painter. She co-wrote and sang the song ''Intimacy'' for the film, The Terminator. She recorded a solo CD 'River of Life' featuring songs of New Zealand writer, Kath Tait. Lin Van Hek has worked for over two decades with a group of women in North Vietnam designing, manufacturing and trading in ethical, non-exploitative hand-embroidered silk garments and textiles. She is an advocate of handmade houses and also lives half the year in a stone house on the Brass Knocker Creek near the Wadbilliga River and state forest in the southeastern corner of New South Wales.
''Ain't Been Missin' You / Walking The Dog'' 1981 Full Moon Records
''Intimacy / Intimacy'' 1982 White Label
'Shaddap You Face' [with Joe Dolce Theatre] 1981 Peerless
'Pundulumura: Two Trees Together' [with Joe Dolce, Gnarayarrahe Waitaire and Ponjyflydu) 1991 Dolceamore Music
'Difficult Women' [with Joe Dolce] 1992 Difficult Women
'Difficult Women: Black Pepper with a Hint of Violets' [with Joe Dolce] 1995 Difficult Women -
'Flower' [with Joe Dolce] 2000 Difficult Women
'Live at Poet House' [with Joe Dolce] 2019 Difficult Women
References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Van_Hek
Thank you, haven't seen this of Lin. Great to see and hear.
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