Joan Baez
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
97
Gender
Female
Birthday
1941-01-09 (85 years old)
Place of Birth
Staten Island, New York, USA
Joan Baez
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.
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Mike Douglas Show
The Dick Cavett Show
Leute heute
Champs-Elysées
Sacrée Soirée
The Muppet Show
Fame
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
Le Grand Échiquier
Le Grand Échiquier
Q&A
Where Are They Now?
Woodstock
Numéro un
Le monde est à vous
Heut' abend
Discorama
The Midnight Special
Please Turn the Page
Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
Ennio
Rockpalast
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
Okay
Playboy After Dark
Dynamite Chicken
Live Aid
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
Slacker Uprising
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Dont Look Back
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Tonight in Person
Woodstock Directors cut
Joan Baez In Concert
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
Live Aid
... Sings Dylan II
Folk Britannia
65 Revisited
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends
The Return of Bruno
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: In Concert 2014-2017
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival
The Big T.N.T. Show
Berkeley in the Sixties
Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work
Renaldo and Clara
Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival
Merton: A Film Biography
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
The Making of Silent Running
Woodstock: Untold Stories
B.B. King & Joan Baez - Live At Sing Sing
Festival
A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
Bulles de Vian
The March
King in the Wilderness
Joan Baez: The Fare Thee Well Tour 2018/2019
The Memory of Justice
Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1973
Rollin' Rain and Hard Thunder: A Compilation Film
Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited
Celebration at Big Sur
Stepping Into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center
Rolling Thunder Revue - 1975-1976 Video Anthology
Newport and the Great Folk Dream
In Remembrance of Martin
Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame: Inaugural Induction Ceremony
Bob Dylan: Hard Rain
Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort
Scruggs: A Festival of Music
Bob Dylan: Rolling Thunder Revue, Clearwater 1976
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
Joan Baez released from jail in Oakland
We Shall Overcome
Sing Sing Thanksgiving
Carry It On
Joan Baez - Blessed Are
Wondering About Things
Joan Baez: 75th Birthday Celebration
