Francesca Gray has appeared on the famous Nashville Sign in the city's iconic Broadway as she prepares new music.

So how did Janita “Jenny” Haan, who graduated with the 1971 class of Fairfield High School and never sang with a band before, a year later find herself the lead singer of British progressive hard rock group Babe Ruth, recording at famed Abbey Road Studios and releasing their first album, which included “The Mexican,” a track that later became instrumental in the birth of hip-hop?

Anthems and songs of freedom, The Alarm have always had a message.