1941-01-09 ( 84 years old ) in Staten Island, New York, USA
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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Movies
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
2025-03-28
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
2023-10-06
Ennio
2022-02-17
Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends
2021-06-22
Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort
2020-03-13
Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970
2019-03-01
Joan Baez: The Fare Thee Well Tour 2018/2019
2019-02-01
King in the Wilderness
2018-01-22
Joan Baez: 75th Birthday Celebration
2016-05-06
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
2015-12-20
... Sings Dylan II
2015-11-06
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
2014-11-25
Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited
2014-07-29
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
2011-01-05
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
2009-10-14
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009-09-12
Bulles de Vian
2009-06-18
Woodstock: Untold Stories
2009-06-09
65 Revisited
2007-11-28
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
2007-09-14
Slacker Uprising
2007-09-07
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
2005-07-21
Live Aid
2004-11-16
Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival
1996-02-15
The History of Rock 'n' Roll
1995-03-06
Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work
1993-12-31
Berkeley in the Sixties
1990-04-23
The Return of Bruno
1987-02-07
In Remembrance of Martin
1986-02-08
Live Aid
1985-07-13
Merton: A Film Biography
1984-01-01
Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
1984-01-01
Renaldo and Clara
1978-01-25
The Memory of Justice
1976-10-04
Bob Dylan: Hard Rain
1976-09-14
Sing Sing Thanksgiving
1974-04-03
Scruggs: A Festival of Music
1972-06-01
B.B. King & Joan Baez - Live At Sing Sing
1972-01-01
The Making of Silent Running
1972-01-01
Celebration at Big Sur
1971-12-10
Dynamite Chicken
1971-01-20
Wondering About Things
1971-01-01
Joan Baez - Blessed Are
1971-01-01
Carry It On
1970-08-26
Woodstock
1970-03-26
Festival
1967-10-23
Dont Look Back
1967-05-17
The Big T.N.T. Show
1965-12-22
The March
1964-12-31
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