Joan Baez
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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Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
2023
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2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022
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Ennio
2022
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A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
2021
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Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends
2021
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Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort
2020
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Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019
as The Balladeer
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
2019
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Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970
2019
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Joan Baez: The Fare Thee Well Tour 2018/2019
2019
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King in the Wilderness
2018
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Joan Baez: 75th Birthday Celebration
2016
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
2015
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The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
2014
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Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited
2014
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Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
2013
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Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013
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Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
2011
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Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
2009
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Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009
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Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
2009
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Bulles de Vian
2009
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Woodstock Ultimate Edition
2009
Woodstock: Untold Stories
2009
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Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival - The Other Side of the Mirror
2007
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65 Revisited
2007
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Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
2007
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Slacker Uprising
2007
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Folk Britannia
2006
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No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
2005
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Live Aid
2004
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Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
2002
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Where Are They Now?
1999
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Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival
1996
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The History of Rock 'n' Roll
1995
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Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work
1993
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Berkeley in the Sixties
1990
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The Return of Bruno
1987
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In Remembrance of Martin
1986
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Live Aid
1985
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Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
1984
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Merton: A Film Biography
1984
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Fame
1982
Renaldo and Clara
1978
as The Woman in White
The Memory of Justice
1976
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Bob Dylan: Hard Rain
1976
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The Muppet Show
1976
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Bob Dylan - Rolling Thunder Revue - 1975-1976 - Video Anthology
1976
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Numéro un
1975
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Sing Sing Thanksgiving
1974
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The Midnight Special
1972
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Scruggs: A Festival of Music
1972
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Le Grand Échiquier
1972
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Le Grand Échiquier
1972
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B.B. King & Joan Baez - Live At Sing Sing
1972
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The Making of Silent Running
1972
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Celebration at Big Sur
1971
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Dynamite Chicken
1971
Joan Baez - Blessed Are
1971
Carry It On
1970
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Woodstock
1970
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King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
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Playboy After Dark
1969
Festival
1967
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Don't Look Back
1967
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The Big T.N.T. Show
1966
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Joan Baez In Concert
1965
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The March
1964
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