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Joan Baez
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.…
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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.
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2025
Newport and the Great Folk Dream
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2025
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
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2025
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
TV show Self - Musician and Activist
- 2024
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2024
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
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2024
Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame: Inaugural Induction Ceremony
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2023
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
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2022
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
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2022
Ennio
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- 2021
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2021
Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends
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2020
Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort
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- 2019
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2019
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Movie The Balladeer
- 2019
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2019
Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970
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2019
Joan Baez: The Fare Thee Well Tour 2018/2019
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- 2018
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2018
King in the Wilderness
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- 2016
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2016
Joan Baez: 75th Birthday Celebration
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2015
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
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2015
... Sings Dylan II
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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2014
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
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2014
Sharon Isbin: Troubadour
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2014
Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited
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- 2013
- 2013
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2011
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
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2009
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
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2009
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
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- 2009
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2009
Bulles de Vian
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2009
Woodstock: Untold Stories
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2008
Q&A
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- 2007
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2007
65 Revisited
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2007
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
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2007
Slacker Uprising
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