Joan Baez
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.
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Movies (44)
Newport and the Great Folk Dream
as Self (archive footage)
2025
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
as Self
2025
Stepping Into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center
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
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
as Self
2023
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
as Self (voice)
2022
Ennio
as Self
2022
A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
as Self
2021
Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort
as Self (archive footage)
2020
Rollin' Rain and Hard Thunder: A Compilation Film
as Self
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
2019
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: In Concert 2014-2017
2018
King in the Wilderness
as Self
2018
Joan Baez: 75th Birthday Celebration
2016
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
as Self - Special Guest
2015
... Sings Dylan II
as Self (archive footage)
2015
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
as Self (archive footage)
2014
Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited
as Self
2014
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
as Self
2013
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
as Self
2013
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
as Self
2011
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
2009
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival
as Self
2007
65 Revisited
as Self (archive footage)
2007
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
as Self
2007
Slacker Uprising
as Self
2007
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
as Self
2005
Live Aid
as Self
2004
Rolling Thunder Revue - 1975-1976 Video Anthology
as Self (archive footage)
2004
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
as Self
2002
Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival
as Self
1996
Woodstock Directors cut
as Self
1994
Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work
as Self
1993
Berkeley in the Sixties
as Self (archive footage)
1990
To Kill a Priest
Songs (Sound)
1988
