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person_profile-Joan Baez

Joan Baez Age: 84

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Joan Baez

Date of Birth:

Jan 09, 1941

Country of birth:

USA

Biography of

Joan Baez

    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.

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Joan Baez

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Filmography of

Joan Baez

Found 51 Movies in total

... 2023

... 2022

Ennio

Self ( Actor )

... 2022

Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2021

... 2019

... 2019

... 2019

... 2019

... 2018

... 2015

The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2014

... 2014

... 2013

... 2013

... 2013

... 2011

... 2009

... 2009

... 2009

Bulles de Vian

Self ( Actor )

... 2009

... 2007

65 Revisited

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2007

... 2007

Slacker Uprising

Self ( Actor )

... 2007

... 2005

Live Aid

Self ( Actor )

... 2004

... 2004

... 2002

... 1996

... 1995

... 1993

Berkeley in the Sixties

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1990

The Return of Bruno

Joan Baez ( Actor )

... 1987

... 1986

Live Aid

Self ( Actor )

... 1985

... 1984

... 1984

Renaldo and Clara

The Woman in White ( Actor )

... 1978

... 1976

Bob Dylan: Hard Rain

Self ( Actor )

... 1976

... 1976

... 1974

... 1972

... 1971

... 1971

Carry It On

Self ( Actor )

... 1970

Woodstock

Self ( Actor )

... 1970

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1970

Festival

Self ( Actor )

... 1967

Dont Look Back

Self ( Actor )

... 1967

The Big T.N.T. Show

Self ( Actor )

... 1965