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Joan Baez
Actor, Additional CreditsBorn January 9, 1941 (84 years)
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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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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Filmography
| 2024 | Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame: Inaugural Induction Ceremony · as Self - Interviewee / Performer |
| 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 | Mothers of the Revolution · as Self - American Activist & Musician |
| 2021 | Song for Cesar · as Self |
| 2021 | |
| 2021 | Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2021 | The 43rd Annual Kennedy Center Honors · as Self - Honoree |
| 2020 | Boris Vian, un coeur qui battait trop fort · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2019 | |
| 2019 | |
| 2018 | Hugh Hefner's After Dark: Speaking Out in America · as Self - Folk Singer-Activist |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2011 | Save the Farm · as Self - Singer & Activist |
| 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 | How Sweet the Sound · as Self |
| 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 | 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 |
| 1997 | Leute heute (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 |
| 1994 | Woodstock 3 Days of Peace and Music · as Self |
| 1993 | Late Show with David Letterman (TV Series) · as Self - Musical Guest |
| 1993 | The 20th Annual American Music Awards · as Self - Performer |
| 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 |
| 1986 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1974 | Rockpalast (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1974 | The Making of 'Silent Running' · as Self |
| 1973 | Rebel · as Joan Baez |
| 1973 | Tomorrow with Tom Snyder (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1972 | The Midnight Special (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1971 | Celebration at Big Sur · as Self |
| 1970 | Woodstock · 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 - titel, thesen, temperamente (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 |