Joan Baez
Biography
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.
Known For
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Dont Look Back
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Merton: A Film Biography
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Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
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Woodstock
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Slacker Uprising
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Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
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Berkeley in the Sixties
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Live Aid
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Ennio
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Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
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Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival
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Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
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Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
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The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival
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The Big T.N.T. Show
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B.B. King & Joan Baez - Live At Sing Sing
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Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work
Wondering About Things
The Woman in White
Renaldo and Clara
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Carry It On
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Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
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A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
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Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited
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Celebration at Big Sur
Joan Baez - Blessed Are
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No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
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Bob Dylan: Hard Rain
Self (voice)
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Dynamite Chicken
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The Making of Silent Running
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The March
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Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends
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Festival
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Scruggs: A Festival of Music
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Woodstock: Untold Stories
Joan Baez
The Return of Bruno
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The Memory of Justice
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Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
Joan Baez: 75th Birthday Celebration
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King in the Wilderness
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Hvězdy za železnou oponou
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Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
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Bulles de Vian
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Joan Baez The Fare Thee Well Tour
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Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
The Balladeer
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
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Woodstock
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Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970
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In Remembrance of Martin
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Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort
The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1973
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Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
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Rolling Thunder Revue - 1975-1976 Video Anthology
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King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
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Live Aid
Self (archive footage)
65 Revisited
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Sing Sing Thanksgiving
Self - Special Guest
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
Bob Dylan: Rolling Thunder Revue, Clearwater 1976
Self - interviewee / performer
Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame: Inaugural Induction Ceremony
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Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
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... Sings Dylan II
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Rollin' Rain and Hard Thunder: A Compilation Film
The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame - In Concert 2014-2017
Stepping Into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center
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Newport and the Great Folk Dream
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Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
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Woodstock Directors cut
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
68
Gender
Female
Birthday
1941-01-09
Place of Birth
Staten Island, New York, USA
Also Known As
Joan Chandos Baez