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.
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Acting (65 movies)
Dont Look Back
1967
Merton: A Film Biography
1984
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
2023
Woodstock
1970
Slacker Uprising
2007
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
2007
Berkeley in the Sixties
1990
Live Aid
1985
Ennio
2022
Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
2009
Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival
1996
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival
2007
The Big T.N.T. Show
1965
B.B. King & Joan Baez - Live At Sing Sing
1972
Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work
1993
Wondering About Things
1971
Renaldo and Clara
1978
Carry It On
1970
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
2013
A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
2021
Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited
2014
Celebration at Big Sur
1971
Joan Baez - Blessed Are
1971
Bob Dylan: Hard Rain
1976
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
2005
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022
Dynamite Chicken
1971
The Making of Silent Running
1972
The March
1964
Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends
2021
Festival
1967
Woodstock: Untold Stories
2009
The Return of Bruno
1987
The Memory of Justice
1976
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
2009
Joan Baez: 75th Birthday Celebration
2016
King in the Wilderness
2018
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
2014
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
2002
Bulles de Vian
2009
Joan Baez: The Fare Thee Well Tour 2018/2019
2019
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
2011
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
In Remembrance of Martin
1986
Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort
2020
The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1973
1973
Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
1984
Rolling Thunder Revue - 1975-1976 Video Anthology
2004
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
Live Aid
2004
65 Revisited
2007
Sing Sing Thanksgiving
1974
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
2015
Bob Dylan: Rolling Thunder Revue, Clearwater 1976
1976
Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame: Inaugural Induction Ceremony
2024
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
2025
... Sings Dylan II
2015
Rollin' Rain and Hard Thunder: A Compilation Film
2019
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: In Concert 2014-2017
2018
Stepping Into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center
2024
Newport and the Great Folk Dream
2025
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