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.
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Filmography
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Movies 76
TV Shows 20
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise (2023)
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (2022)
Ennio (2022)
A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings (2021)
The Boys Who Said No! (2020)
Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort (2020)
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019)
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation (2019)
Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970 (2019)
Joan Baez: The Fare Thee Well Tour 2018/2019 (2019)
King in the Wilderness (2018)
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (2017)
Joan Baez: 75th Birthday Celebration (2016)
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live (2015)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)
Snapshots from the Tour (2015)
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain (2014)
Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued (2014)
Sharon Isbin: Troubadour (2014)
Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited (2014)
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis' (2013)
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington (2013)
For the Love of the Music: The Club 47 Folk Revival (2012)
Elvis Found Alive (2012)
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune (2011)
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound (2009)
Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 (2009)
Bulles de Vian (2009)
Woodstock: Untold Stories (2009)
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009)
Q&A (2008)
Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action (2008)
Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival - The Other Side of the Mirror (2007)
65 Revisited (2007)
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song (2007)
Captain Mike Across America (2007)
Slacker Uprising (2007)
Folk Britannia (2006)
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)
The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken (2005)
Live Aid (2004)
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (2002)
Where Are They Now? (1999)
Leute heute (1997)
Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival (1996)
Mary Chapin Carpenter: Jubilee: Live at Wolf Trap (1995)
The History of Rock 'n' Roll (1995)
Woodstock Diary (1994)
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg (1994)
Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work (1993)
Berkeley in the Sixties (1990)
Woodstock: The Lost Performances (1990)
The Return of Bruno (1987)
In Remembrance of Martin (1986)
Live Aid (1985)
In Our Hands (1984)
Merton: A Film Biography (1984)
Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin' (1984)
Champs-Elysées (1982)
Fame (1982)
Heut' abend (1980)
Okay (1979)
Renaldo and Clara (1978)
Bitte umblättern (1977)
The Memory of Justice (1976)
Bob Dylan: Hard Rain (1976)
The Muppet Show (1976)
Bob Dylan - Rolling Thunder Revue - 1975-1976 - Video Anthology (1976)
Numéro un (1975)
Sing Sing Thanksgiving (1974)
The Midnight Special (1972)
Scruggs: A Festival of Music (1972)
Silent Running (1972)
Le Grand Échiquier (1972)
The Making of Silent Running (1972)
B.B. King & Joan Baez - Live At Sing Sing (1972)
Celebration at Big Sur (1971)
Dynamite Chicken (1971)
Joan Baez - Blessed Are (1971)
Carry It On (1970)
Woodstock (1970)
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970)
Playboy After Dark (1969)
The Dick Cavett Show (1968)
Everything or Nothing (1968)
Festival (1967)
Bob Dylan - Dont Look Back (1967)
The Big T.N.T. Show (1966)
Joan Baez In Concert (1965)
The March (1964)
Tonight in Person (1963)
The Mike Douglas Show (1961)
Discorama (1959)
Don't Get Trouble in Your Mind: The Carolina Chocolate Drops' Story
The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1973
Wondering About Things
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GenderFemale
Birthday1941-01-09 (83 years old)
Birth NameJoan Chandos Baez
Birth PlaceStaten Island, United States of America
Height
RelationshipsDavid Harris (1968-01-01 - 1973-01-01)
ChildrenGabriel Harris
FatherAlbert Baez
MotherJoan Bridge
SiblingsMimi Fariña, Pauline Baez
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsJoan Chandos Baez
AwardsLatin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Grammy Award for Best Folk Album, Americana Music Honors & Awards, Order of Arts and Letters, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Ambassador of Conscience Award, Bambi Award, Thomas Merton Award, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, "Spirit of Americana" Free Speech Award
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