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Aliases: Joan Chandos Baez

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Staten Island, New York, USA

Homepage: http://www.joanbaez.com/

Movie Involvements: 55

TV Involvements: 10


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

Le Grand Échiquier
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8

Le Grand Échiquier

(1972) Self
Where Are They Now?
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8

Where Are They Now?

(1999) Self
Leute heute
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3

Leute heute

(1997) Self
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
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6
The Midnight Special
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7

The Midnight Special

(1972) Self
Numéro un
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6

Numéro un

(1975) Self
Bitte umblättern
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6

Bitte umblättern

(1977) Self
Folk Britannia
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0

Folk Britannia

(2006) Self (archival footage)

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2023 Self
2022 Self (voice)
Self
2021 Self
Self (archive footage)
2020 Self (archive footage)
2019 The Balladeer
Self
Self
Self
2018 Self
2016 N/A
2015 Self
N/A
2014 Self (archive footage)
self
2013 Self
Self
2011 Self
2009 Self
Self
Self
Self
N/A
Self
2008 Self - Panelist
2007 Self
Self (archive footage)
Self
Self
2006 Self (archival footage)
2005 Self
2004 Self
2002 Self
1999 Self
1997 Self
1996 Self
1995 Self
1993 Self
1990 Self (archive footage)
1987 Self
Joan Baez
1986 Self
1985 Self
1984 Self
Self
1982 Self
N/A
1980 Self
1979 Self
1978 The Woman in White
1977 Self
1976 Self
Self
Self - Special Guest Star
Self
1975 Self
1974 Self
1972 Self
Self
Self - Main Guest
Self
Self
Self
1971 Self
N/A
N/A
1970 Self
Self
Self (archive footage)
1969 N/A
1968 Self - Guest
1967 Self
Self
Self
1966 Self
1965 Self (archive footage)
1964 Self
1963 Self
1961 Self
1959 Self
N/A
N/A
Year Character Movie/Tv

Sound

Year Role Movie/Tv
1988 Songs
1972 Theme Song Performance
1968 Music
Year Role Movie/Tv

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