Joan Baez
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
94
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 Mike Douglas Show
Leute heute
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Champs-Elysées
Sacrée Soirée
Le monde est à vous
The Dick Cavett Show
Rockpalast
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
Discorama
Numéro un
Le Grand Échiquier
Le Grand Échiquier
Q&A
Fame
Where Are They Now?
The Midnight Special
Please Turn the Page
Heut' abend
The Muppet Show
Okay
The Making of Silent Running
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
Sing Sing Thanksgiving
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
65 Revisited
Slacker Uprising
Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival
Wondering About Things
The History of Rock 'n' Roll
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Bulles de Vian
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Woodstock
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
Renaldo and Clara
Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
The Memory of Justice
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
Playboy After Dark
The Return of Bruno
The March
Ennio
Festival
Berkeley in the Sixties
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
Newport and the Great Folk Dream
Tonight in Person
Live Aid
Merton: A Film Biography
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
Dont Look Back
The Big T.N.T. Show
In Remembrance of Martin
Bob Dylan: Hard Rain
Stepping Into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: In Concert 2014-2017
Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
Folk Britannia
... Sings Dylan II
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
Rollin' Rain and Hard Thunder: A Compilation Film
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
Live Aid
B.B. King & Joan Baez - Live At Sing Sing
Celebration at Big Sur
Joan Baez In Concert
Bob Dylan: Rolling Thunder Revue, Clearwater 1976
The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1973
Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort
Rolling Thunder Revue - 1975-1976 Video Anthology
Dynamite Chicken
A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
Joan Baez - Blessed Are
Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited
Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame: Inaugural Induction Ceremony
Joan Baez: 75th Birthday Celebration
Woodstock: Untold Stories
Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970
Scruggs: A Festival of Music
Joan Baez: The Fare Thee Well Tour 2018/2019
King in the Wilderness
Carry It On
