Joan Baez

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Born: January 9, 1941
From: Staten Island, New York, USA
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Biography

Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist. Her contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest and social justice.] Baez has performed publicly for over 60 years, releasing more than 30 albums. Baez is generally regarded as a folk singer, but her music has diversified since the counterculture era of the 1960s and encompasses genres such as folk rock, pop, country, and gospel music. 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. Although a songwriter herself, Baez generally interprets others' work, having recorded many traditional songs and songs written by the Allman Brothers Band, the Beatles, Jackson Browne, Leonard Cohen, Woody Guthrie, Violeta Parra, the Rolling Stones, Pete Seeger, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley, and many others. She was one of the first major artists to record songs by Bob Dylan in the early 1960s; Baez was already an internationally celebrated artist and did much to popularize his early songwriting efforts. Her tumultuous relationship with Dylan later became the subject of songs by each of them and generated much public speculation. On her later albums she has found success interpreting the work of more recent songwriters, including Ryan Adams, Josh Ritter, Steve Earle, Natalie Merchant, and Joe Henry. Baez's songs include "Diamonds & Rust" and covers of Phil Ochs's "There but for Fortune" and the Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". She also recorded "Farewell, Angelina", "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word", "Forever Young", "Here's to You", "Joe Hill", "Sweet Sir Galahad" and "We Shall Overcome". Baez performed fourteen songs at the 1969 Woodstock Festival and has displayed a lifelong commitment to political and social activism in the fields of nonviolence, civil rights, human rights, and the environment. Baez was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 7, 2017. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Baez, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

71 films

Ennio

20228.3

Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley

20247.5

Live Aid

19857.9

Woodstock

19707.5

Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live

20158.4

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

20057.8

Sing Sing Thanksgiving

19728.0

Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back

19677.4

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

20197.0

2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

20228.2

Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'

19846.5

Dynamite Chicken

19715.5

Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation

20197.3

An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.

1986

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

20077.0

Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel

20096.0

Joan Baez: I Am a Noise

20236.7

The Return of Bruno

19876.5

Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends

20216.6

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

19707.3

Slacker Uprising

20075.3

The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

19945.7

... Sings Dylan II

20157.8

Janis Ian: Breaking Silence

20255.0

Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune

20116.6

The Memory of Justice

19766.8

Celebration at Big Sur

19713.7

Live Aid

20049.2

Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

20138.0

The Making of Silent Running

19728.0

In Remembrance of Martin

19868.0

The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival

20078.1

Martin Luther King and the March on Washington

201310.0

The March

19647.0

Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

20024.5

The Big T.N.T. Show

19658.5

Renaldo and Clara

19787.9

Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: In Concert 2014-2017

2018

King in the Wilderness

20186.9

Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound

20096.7

Bulles de Vian

20095.0

We Shall Overcome

19897.0

Newport and the Great Folk Dream

2025

Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work

19937.0

Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival

19966.8

Sing Sing Thanksgiving

19749.5

Berkeley in the Sixties

19906.0

Merton: A Film Biography

19848.7

Joan Baez: The Fare Thee Well Tour 2018/2019

20196.3

Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited

2014

The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain

2014

A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings

2021

65 Revisited

20079.4

Bob Dylan: Hard Rain

19769.5

Rolling Thunder Revue - 1975-1976 Video Anthology

2004

Woodstock: Untold Stories

2009

Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970

2019

Rollin' Rain and Hard Thunder: A Compilation Film

2019

Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970

20097.6

Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort

20201.0

The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1973

19737.0

Scruggs: A Festival of Music

1972

Stepping Into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center

2024

Wondering About Things

1971

Festival

19676.0

Bob Dylan: Rolling Thunder Revue, Clearwater 1976

1976

Carry It On

1970

Joan Baez released from jail in Oakland

2026

Joan Baez: 75th Birthday Celebration

20167.0

Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame: Inaugural Induction Ceremony

2024

Joan Baez - Blessed Are

1971