Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 09, 1941
Place of Birth
Staten Island, New York, USA
Credits
103 titles
Joan Baez
Biography
Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist. Her contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest and social justice.] Baez has performed publicly for over 60 years, releasing more than 30 albums. Baez is generally regarded as a folk singer, but her music has diversified since the counterculture era of the 1960s and encompasses genres such as folk rock, pop, country, and gospel music. 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. Although a songwriter herself, Baez generally interprets others' work, having recorded many traditional songs and songs written by the Allman Brothers Band, the Beatles, Jackson Browne, Leonard Cohen, Woody Guthrie, Violeta Parra, the Rolling Stones, Pete Seeger, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley, and many others. She was one of the first major artists to record songs by Bob Dylan in the early 1960s; Baez was already an internationally celebrated artist and did much to popularize his early songwriting efforts. Her tumultuous relationship with Dylan later became the subject of songs by each of them and generated much public speculation. On her later albums she has found success interpreting the work of more recent songwriters, including Ryan Adams, Josh Ritter, Steve Earle, Natalie Merchant, and Joe Henry. Baez's songs include "Diamonds & Rust" and covers of Phil Ochs's "There but for Fortune" and the Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". She also recorded "Farewell, Angelina", "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word", "Forever Young", "Here's to You", "Joe Hill", "Sweet Sir Galahad" and "We Shall Overcome". Baez performed fourteen songs at the 1969 Woodstock Festival and has displayed a lifelong commitment to political and social activism in the fields of nonviolence, civil rights, human rights, and the environment. Baez was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 7, 2017. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Baez, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Newport and the Great Folk Dream
Self (archive footage)
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
Self
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
Self - Musician and Activist
Stepping Into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
Self (archive footage)
Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame: Inaugural Induction Ceremony
Self - interviewee / performer
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
Self
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Self (voice)
Ennio
Self
A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
Self
Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends
Self (archive footage)
Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort
Self (archive footage)
Rollin' Rain and Hard Thunder: A Compilation Film
Self
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
The Balladeer
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
Self
Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970
Self
Joan Baez: The Fare Thee Well Tour 2018/2019
Self
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: In Concert 2014-2017
Self
King in the Wilderness
Self
Joan Baez: 75th Birthday Celebration
Self
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
Self - Special Guest
... Sings Dylan II
Self (archive footage)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
Self (archive footage)
Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited
Self
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
Self
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
Self
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
Self
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
Self
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Self
Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
Self
Bulles de Vian
Self
Woodstock: Untold Stories
Self
Q&A
Self - Panelist
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival
Self
65 Revisited
Self (archive footage)
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
Self
Slacker Uprising
Self
Folk Britannia
Self (archival footage)
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Self
Live Aid
Self
Rolling Thunder Revue - 1975-1976 Video Anthology
Self (archive footage)
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Self
Where Are They Now?
Self
Leute heute
Self
Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival
Self
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
Self
Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work
Self
Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Musical Guest
Berkeley in the Sixties
Self (archive footage)