Joan Baez
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
95
Gender
Female
Birthday
1941-01-09 (84 years old)
Place of Birth
Staten Island, New York, USA
Joan Baez
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. 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
Leute heute
Champs-Elysées
The Dick Cavett Show
Sacrée Soirée
Where Are They Now?
Q&A
Le monde est à vous
Le Grand Échiquier
Le Grand Échiquier
Discorama
The Muppet Show
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
Fame
Numéro un
The Midnight Special
Heut' abend
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival
65 Revisited
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
Live Aid
Woodstock
Slacker Uprising
The Memory of Justice
Festival
Merton: A Film Biography
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
Rollin' Rain and Hard Thunder: A Compilation Film
Rockpalast
Please Turn the Page
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
Okay
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Ennio
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Dont Look Back
Renaldo and Clara
Bulles de Vian
Newport and the Great Folk Dream
The Return of Bruno
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
The Making of Silent Running
Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
Playboy After Dark
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends
Berkeley in the Sixties
Bob Dylan: Hard Rain
Live Aid
Tonight in Person
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
Bob Dylan: Rolling Thunder Revue, Clearwater 1976
The Big T.N.T. Show
Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
Woodstock Directors cut
Wondering About Things
Rolling Thunder Revue - 1975-1976 Video Anthology
The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1973
Folk Britannia
Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
King in the Wilderness
The March
In Remembrance of Martin
Dynamite Chicken
... Sings Dylan II
Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
Sing Sing Thanksgiving
A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
Joan Baez In Concert
Celebration at Big Sur
B.B. King & Joan Baez - Live At Sing Sing
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: In Concert 2014-2017
Woodstock: Untold Stories
Joan Baez: The Fare Thee Well Tour 2018/2019
Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame: Inaugural Induction Ceremony
Stepping Into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center
Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970
Joan Baez: 75th Birthday Celebration
Carry It On
Joan Baez - Blessed Are
Scruggs: A Festival of Music
