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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Baez, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- 2023 · Joan Baez: I Am a Noise as Self
- 2022 · 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony as Self (voice)
- 2022 · Ennio as Self
- 2021 · A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings as Self
- 2021 · Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends as Self (archive footage)
- 2020 · Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 · Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese as The Balladeer
- 2019 · Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation as Self
- 2019 · Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970 as Self
- 2019 · Joan Baez: The Fare Thee Well Tour 2018/2019 as Self
- 2018 · King in the Wilderness as Self
- 2016 · Joan Baez: 75th Birthday Celebration as
- 2015 · Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live as Self
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as
- 2014 · The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain as Self (archive footage)
- 2014 · Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited as Self
- 2013 · Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis' as Self
- 2013 · Martin Luther King and the March on Washington as Self
- 2011 · Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune as Self
- 2009 · Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound as Self
- 2009 · Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel as Self
- 2009 · Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 as Self
- 2009 · Bulles de Vian as Self
- 2009 · Woodstock: Untold Stories as Self
- 2008 · Q&A as Self - Panelist
- 2007 · Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival - The Other Side of the Mirror as Self
- 2007 · 65 Revisited as Self (archive footage)
- 2007 · Pete Seeger: The Power of Song as Self
- 2007 · Slacker Uprising as Self
- 2006 · Folk Britannia as Self (archival footage)
- 2005 · No Direction Home: Bob Dylan as Self
- 2004 · Live Aid as Self
- 2002 · Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour as Self
- 1999 · Where Are They Now? as Self
- 1997 · Leute heute as Self
- 1996 · Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival as Self
- 1995 · The History of Rock 'n' Roll as Self
- 1993 · Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work as Self
- 1990 · Berkeley in the Sixties as Self (archive footage)
- 1987 · Le monde est à vous as Self
- 1987 · The Return of Bruno as Joan Baez
- 1986 · In Remembrance of Martin as Self
- 1985 · Live Aid as Self
- 1984 · Merton: A Film Biography as Self
- 1984 · Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin' as Self
- 1982 · Champs-Elysées as Self
- 1982 · Fame as
- 1980 · Heut' abend as Self
- 1979 · Okay as Self
- 1978 · Renaldo and Clara as The Woman in White
- 1977 · Bitte umblättern as Self
- 1976 · The Memory of Justice as Self
- 1976 · Bob Dylan: Hard Rain as Self
- 1976 · The Muppet Show as Self - Special Guest Star
- 1976 · Bob Dylan - Rolling Thunder Revue - 1975-1976 - Video Anthology as Self
- 1975 · Numéro un as Self
- 1974 · Sing Sing Thanksgiving as Self
- 1972 · The Midnight Special as Self
- 1972 · Scruggs: A Festival of Music as Self
- 1972 · Le Grand Échiquier as Self - Main Guest
- 1972 · Le Grand Échiquier as Self
- 1972 · The Making of Silent Running as Self
- 1972 · B.B. King & Joan Baez - Live At Sing Sing as Self
- 1971 · Celebration at Big Sur as Self
- 1971 · Dynamite Chicken as
- 1971 · Joan Baez - Blessed Are as
- 1971 · Wondering About Things as
- 1970 · Carry It On as Self
- 1970 · Woodstock as Self
- 1970 · King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis as Self (archive footage)
- 1969 · Playboy After Dark as
- 1968 · The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- 1967 · Titel, Thesen, Temperamente as Self
- 1967 · Festival as Self
- 1967 · Dont Look Back as Self
- 1965 · The Big T.N.T. Show as Self
- 1965 · Joan Baez In Concert as Self (archive footage)
- 1964 · The March as Self
- 1963 · Tonight in Person as Self
- 1962 · The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- 1961 · The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- 1959 · Discorama as Self
- Future · The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1973 as