Joan Baez
Staten Island, New York, USA
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Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American folk singer, songwriter and activist. Baez has a distinctive vocal style, with a strong vibrato. Her recordings include many topical songs and material dealing with social issues. Baez began her career performing in coffeehouses in Boston and Cambridge, and rose to fame as an unbilled performer at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival. She began her recording career in 1960, and achieved immediate success. Her first three albums, Joan Baez, Joan Baez, Vol. 2, and Joan Baez in Concert all achieved gold record status, and stayed on the charts for two years. Baez had a popular hit song with "Diamonds & Rust" and hit covers of Phil Ochs's "There but for Fortune" and The Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". Other songs associated with Baez include "Farewell, Angelina", "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word", "Joe Hill", "Sweet Sir Galahad" and "We Shall Overcome". She performed three of the songs at the 1969 Woodstock Festival, helped to bring the songs of Bob Dylan to national prominence, and has displayed a lifelong commitment to political and social activism in the fields of nonviolence, civil rights, human rights and the environment. Baez performed publicly for over 52 years, releasing over 30 albums. Fluent in Spanish as well as in English, she has also recorded songs in at least six other languages. She is regarded as a folk singer, although her music has diversified since the 1960s, encompassing everything from folk rock and pop to country and gospel music. Although a songwriter herself, Baez is generally regarded as an interpreter of other people's work, having recorded songs by The Allman Brothers Band, The Beatles, Jackson Browne, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, The Rolling Stones, Pete Seeger, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, and many others. In recent years, she has found success interpreting songs of modern songwriters such as Ryan Adams, Steve Earle and Natalie Merchant. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Baez, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1973
Rolling Thunder Revue - 1975-1976 Video Anthology
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Bob Dylan: Rolling Thunder Revue, Clearwater 1976
Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame: Inaugural Induction Ceremony
Rollin' Rain and Hard Thunder: A Compilation Film
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: In Concert 2014-2017
Stepping Into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
