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Joan Baez
Actor, Additional CreditsBorn January 9, 1941 (85 years)
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.
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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.
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Featured Videos
Joan Baez Filmography
| 2025 | Everybody's Live with John Mulaney (TV Series) · as Self - Musician And Activist |
| 2024 | Janis Ian: Breaking Silence · as Self |
| 2024 | Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2024 | Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame: Inaugural Induction Ceremony · as Self - Interviewee / Performer |
| 2024 | Petra Kelly - Act Now! · as Self |
| 2023 | Joan Baez I Am a Noise · as Self |
| 2022 | The 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony · as Self (voice) |
| 2022 | Bettina · as Self |
| 2021 | |
| 2021 | Lead Belly: Life, Legend, Legacy · as Self |
| 2021 | Mothers of the Revolution · as Self - American Activist & Musician |
| 2021 | Song for Cesar · as Self |
| 2021 | |
| 2021 | Woodstock 99: Peace Love and Rage · as Self |
| 2021 | Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2021 | The 43rd Annual Kennedy Center Honors · as Self - Honoree |
| 2021 | |
| 2020 | Boris Vian, un coeur qui battait trop fort · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2019 | |
| 2019 | |
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| 2019 | |
| 2018 | Hugh Hefner's After Dark: Speaking Out in America · as Self - Folk Singer |
| 2018 | King In The Wilderness · as Self |
| 2017 | We Blew It · as Self |
| 2017 | Deadline: White House with Nicolle Wallace (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2017 | |
| 2015 | Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour Live · as Self - Special Guest |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2014 | Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued · as Self |
| 2014 | Sharon Isbin: Troubadour · as Self - Interviewee |
| 2013 | |
| 2013 | The Big Interview (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2013 | The March · as Self |
| 2012 | |
| 2012 | Elvis Found Alive · as Self |
| 2012 | CBS Saturday Morning (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2012 | CBS Mornings (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2011 | Sing Your Song · as Self |
| 2010 | Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune · as Self |
| 2010 | In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement · as Self - Performer |
| 2009 | Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound · as Self |
| 2009 | Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel · as Self |
| 2009 | C à Vous (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2009 | Woodstock: Now & Then · as Self |
| 2009 | |
| 2009 | Skavlan (TV Series) · as Self - Guest And Musical Performer |
| 2008 | Battleground Earth Ludacris vs Tommy Lee (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2008 | Q+A (TV Series) · as Self - Panelist |
| 2008 | |
| 2008 | Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action · as Self |
| 2007 | |
| 2007 | 65 Revisited · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2007 | Pete Seeger: The Power of Song · as Self |
| 2007 | Slacker Uprising · as Self |
| 2007 | The 49th Annual Grammy Awards · as Self |
| 2005 | Sunday Morning (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2005 | No Direction Home: Bob Dylan · as Self |
| 2005 | |
| 2004 | Live Aid · as Self |
| 2004 | Fahrenheit 9/11: A Movement in Time · as Self |
| 2004 | Tavis Smiley (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2003 | Get Up, Stand Up (TV Series) · as Self - Interviewee |
| 2003 | The Howlin' Wolf Story · as Self |
| 2003 | Soundstage (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2002 | |
| 1999 | Where Are They Now? (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1998 | Roll on Sunday (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1998 | ARTE Journal Clips (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1997 | Leute heute (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1996 | Dancing in the Street (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1996 | |
| 1995 | Rock & Roll (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1995 | The History of Rock 'n' Roll (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1994 | |
| 1994 | Woodstock Diary · as Self |
| 1993 | The 20th Annual American Music Awards · as Self - Performer |
| 1992 | Late Show with David Letterman (TV Series) · as Self - Musical Guest |
| 1992 | Later... with Jools Holland (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1990 | Berkeley in the Sixties · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1990 | Woodstock: The Lost Performances · as Self |
| 1988 | American Experience (TV Series) · as Self - Musician |
| 1988 | LIVE with Kelly and Mark (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1987 | The Return of Bruno · as Joan Baez |
| 1986 | In Remembrance of Martin · as Self |
| 1985 | American Masters (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1985 | 1985 MTV Video Music Awards · as Self |
| 1985 | Live Aid · as Self |
| 1984 | Merton · as Self |
| 1983 | In Our Hands · as Self |
| 1982 | Wogan (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1982 | Late Night With David Letterman (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1982 | Champs-Elysees (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1982 | Fame (TV Series) · as Joan Baez |
| 1981 | Wetten, dass..? (TV Series) · as Self - Musician |
| 1980 | Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1980 | Hour Magazine (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1979 | CBS Sunday Morning With Jane Pauley (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1978 | 20/20 (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1977 | All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1976 | The Memory of Justice · as Self |
| 1976 | Hard Rain · as Self |
| 1976 | The Muppet Show (TV Series) · as Self - Special Guest Star |
| 1975 | Number One (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1973 | Rebel · as Joan Baez |
| 1973 | Tomorrow with Tom Snyder (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1972 | The Midnight Special (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1972 | The Making of 'Silent Running' · as Self |
| 1971 | Celebration at Big Sur · as Self |
| 1971 | Dynamite Chicken · as Self |
| 1971 | |
| 1970 | Woodstock · as Self |
| 1970 | Carry It On · as Self |
| 1969 | King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1967 | TTT (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1967 | Festival · as Self |
| 1967 | Don't Look Back · as Self |
| 1967 | The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1965 | The Big T.N.T. Show · as Self |
| 1964 | Die Drehscheibe (TV Series) · as Self - Musician |
| 1964 | Top of the Pops (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1962 | The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1952 | Today (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1952 | CBS Television Workshop (TV Series) · as Self - Musician |
| 2020 | The Boys Who Said NO! · as Cast |
| 2019 | Rolling Thunder Revue · as The Balladeer |
| 2000 | Stand and Be Counted · as Cast |
| 1999 | 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll · as Cast |
| 1983 | Sag nein · as Cast |
| 1978 | Renaldo and Clara · as The Woman In White |
| 1975 | Banjoman · as Cast |
| 1974 | Rockpalast (TV Series) |
| 1969 | Playboy After Dark (TV Series) |
| 1988 | To Kill A Priest · as Songs |
| 1972 | Silent Running · as Theme Song Performance |
| 1971 | Sacco & Vanzetti · as Songs |