Years active: 1975 - present (started around 16 years old; 49 years in the business)
About Lita Ford
Lita Rossana Ford is an English-born guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. She was the lead guitarist for the all-female rock band the Runaways in the late 1970s, and then embarked on a successful glam metal solo career that hit its peak in the late 1980s.
Ford also had a small role in the 1992 horror/comedy film Highway to Hell, playing a character called "The Hitchhiker", and contributed her likeness and voice to the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC video game BrĂ¼tal Legend. She appears as the character Rima, alongside Jack Black, Tim Curry, Ozzy Osbourne, Rob Halford, and Lemmy Kilmister. Her song "Betrayal" is also one of the 100+ songs that appear in the game.