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Joan Baez

Joan Baez

Actor · b. 1941 · Staten Island, New York, USA

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.

Series24

  • TV7.5
  • TV6.1
  • TV6.4
  • TV5.8

    The Mike Douglas Show

    1961 · 11 votes

  • TV5.2

    Leute heute

    1997 · 5 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Dick Cavett Show

    1968 · 22 votes

  • TV5.7

    Sacrée soirée

    1987 · 5 votes

  • TV6.8

    Champs-Elysées

    1982 · 9 votes

  • TV7.5

    Numéro un

    1975 · 2 votes

  • TV
  • TV8.0

    Le Grand Échiquier

    1972 · 3 votes

  • TV6.8

    Fame

    1982 · 72 votes

  • TV8.0

    Discorama

    1959 · 1 votes

  • TV6.5
  • TV7.0

    Heut' abend

    1980 · 1 votes

  • TV3.2

    Q&A

    2008 · 5 votes

  • TV8.0

    The Muppet Show

    1976 · 363 votes

  • TV7.5

    Where Are They Now?

    1999 · 2 votes

  • TV10.0

    Rockpalast

    1974 · 1 votes

  • TV6.7
  • TV8.1

    The Midnight Special

    1972 · 7 votes

  • TV6.0

    Bitte umblättern

    Please Turn the Page

    1977 · 1 votes

  • TV

    Okay

    1979

  • TV7.0

    Tonight in Person

    1963 · 1 votes

Movies22

  • Movie8.3

    Ennio

    2022 · 390 votes

  • Movie8.4
  • Movie7.5
  • Movie8.5
  • Movie7.6

    Woodstock

    1970 · 301 votes

  • Movie8.2
  • Movie7.9

    Live Aid

    1985 · 54 votes

  • Movie4.5
  • Movie7.0
  • Movie7.4
  • Movie7.8
  • Movie7.3
  • Movie6.8

    The Memory of Justice

    1976 · 19 votes

  • Movie5.5
  • Movie7.0

    The March

    1964 · 6 votes

  • Movie6.5

    The Return of Bruno

    1987 · 28 votes

  • Movie6.5
  • Movie6.8

    Joan Baez: I Am a Noise

    2023 · 19 votes

  • Movie6.6
  • Movie8.0
  • Movie8.5

    The Big T.N.T. Show

    1965 · 2 votes

  • Movie6.0