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Joan Chandos Baez 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.
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entertainment · American contemporary folk musician (born 1941) · singer-songwriter · singer · composer · guitarist · musician · dancer · pacifist · activist · record producer · recording artist · also Joan Baez, Joan Chandos Báez, Joan Báez, Joan C. Baez, Baez
Born 9 January 1941 · Q131725
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“This album is very much like my roots many years ago,”
“s tremendous influence. Even now, Baez says, she draws inspiration from having her mother and family nearby as she grows older. Sponsor Message”
“I get to see her grow old, and I get to hopefully see her die, and that”
“t always that way. The singer says that, though no one knew, she used to be terrified of performing and doubted her own abilities. Through the help of years of therapy, she says she”
“The song confused me at first, because it”
“All of a sudden, everyone around me was writing songs and somebody said,”
“and we look at it like a bookend to the very beginning. It does sound like home.”
“I just stuck with people. The other thing is, I think when you”
“The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti, Part One”
“The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti, Part Three”
“The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti, Part Two”
“Steve had a very sweet side, even if he was as... erratic as he was famous for being. But he gets genius license for that, because he was somebody who changed the world.”
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The Guardian: Raw, romantic and radical: Joan Baez’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!
Released album “The Newport Era”.
The Guardian: ‘I’m literally Joan Baez right now’: gen Z women relate to Bob Dylan’s toxic situationship
Snopes rated the claim “American folk singer Joan Baez once said: “You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now.”” Correct Attribution.
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Awarded Commander of the Order of the White Double Cross presented by Zuzana Čaputová in Woodside (2024).
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The Guardian: Joan Baez: I Am a Noise review – intimate doc about the folk legend and activist
The Guardian: Joan Baez: ‘I talk to trees to get answers. They give it to you cold turkey’
The Guardian: Post your questions for Joan Baez
Snopes rated the claim “A photo authentically shows Joan Baez holding a bong and smoking marijuana with Jimi Hendrix.” Fake.
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Released album “Ten Songs for You”.
Released album “Early Years: The First Albums 1959-61”.
Released album “The Story of Vanguard”.
Released album “Black Hair”.
Released album “Ballads of a Lonesome Wildwood Flower”.
The Guardian: Joan Baez: where to start in her back catalogue
Following dates across Europe, Baez performed her final concert at Madrid's Teatro Real
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Awarded Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2019).
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Baez told Rolling Stone that she had been approached to perform at the Woodstock 50 festival, but had turned the offer down for "it was too complicated to even get involved in" and her "instincts" were telling her "no"
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The Guardian: Joan Baez: ‘Music can move people to do things’
Because, she explained, her vocal cords could no longer consistently perform at the level she demanded of herself
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That she was not a vegetarian and had not been part of the second-wave feminist movement, remarking that her stardom shielded her from the everyday struggles of other women
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Released album “Diva of the Folk Revival: Early Days and Late, Late, Nights”.
Released album “Her Classic 1960s British EPs”.
The Guardian: From Joan Baez to Taylor Swift: how musicians found a political voice
The Guardian: Joan Baez review – queen of folk bids a poignant farewell
The Guardian: Joan Baez: Whistle Down the Wind review – a graceful farewell
Released album “Whistle Down the Wind”.
Released a new studio album titled Whistle Down the Wind, which charted in many countries and was nominated for a Grammy, and undertook her "Fare Thee Well Tour" to support the album
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Released album “Silver Dagger”.
Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2017).
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Was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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Baez released on her Facebook page her first new song in 27 years, "Nasty Man", a protest song against US President Donald Trump, which became a viral hit
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Released album “The Album”.
Released album “The Indispensable 1959-1962”.
Released album “The Complete Gold Castle Masters”.
Released album “Blowin’ Away / Honest Lullaby / European Tour”.
Baez advocated for the Innocence Project and Innocence Network
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Released album “El preso número 9”.
Released album “BD Music Presents Joan Baez”.
Awarded Ambassador of Conscience Award (2015).
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Released album “The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection”.
Released album “Introducing”.
Released album “Joan Baez (Debut Album) Plus Joan Baez, Vol. 2 & In Concert”.
Released album “Voices of a Generation”.
Released album “An Intimate Performance”.
Released album “Trilogy”.
Released album “The First Lady of Folk: 1958–1961”.
Baez played as part of a musical concert for the protestors at Occupy Wall Street
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Released album “Songbird”.
Released album “The Debut Album Plus”.
Released album “The First Lady Of Folksongs”.
Released album “Queen of the Folk Music - The Legend Begins”.
As part of an evening celebrating the music associated with the civil rights movement, performing "We Shall Overcome"
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PBS aired an episode of its documentary series American Masters, titled Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
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Baez played at the 50th Newport Folk Festival, marking the 50th anniversary of her breakthrough performance at the first festival
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Baez created a special version of "We Shall Overcome", with a few lines of Persian lyrics in support of peaceful protests by Iranian people
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Election won: 2008 presidential election.
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Released album “Day After Tomorrow”.
Played at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland
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Baez performed on the acoustic stage at the Glastonbury Festival playing out the final set to a packed audience
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Awarded "Spirit of Americana" Free Speech Award (2008).
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Baez wrote a letter to the editor at the San Francisco Chronicle endorsing Barack Obama in the 2008 U
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Campaign: 2008 presidential election.
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Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2007).
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Released album “Vanguard Visionaries: Joan Baez”.
Made a guest appearance at the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir's Christmas Concert at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, California
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Baez appeared as a special surprise guest at the opening ceremony of the Forum 2000 international conference in Prague
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Baez joined Bruce Springsteen on stage at his San Francisco concert, where the two performed the rolling anthem "Pay Me My Money Down"
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Baez once again joined Julia Butterfly Hill, this time in a "tree sit" in a giant tree on the site of the South Central Farm in a poor neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles, California
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Baez performed at the funeral of Lou Rawls, where she led Jesse Jackson Sr
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Performed at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park
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Released album “The Best of the Vanguard Years”.
Released album “Dark Chords on a Big Guitar”.
Released album “The Complete A&M Recordings”.
Baez was also a judge for the third annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers
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And mentioned in the 2009 American Masters documentary that she had grown closer to her older sister Pauline in later years
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Baez has had several successful long-term engagements as a lead character at San Francisco's Teatro ZinZanni
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Released album “Classic Joan Baez”.
Released album “20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Joan Baez”.
Released album “Baez Sings Dylan”.
A limited release on CD by the "Valley Forge Record Groupe" was released
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Released album “Gone From Danger”.
Released album “Really the Best”.
Released album “The Very Best of Joan Baez”.
Released album “Diamonds”.
Released album “Selection of Joan Baez”.
Released album “We Shall Overcome”.
Released album “Rare, Live & Classic”.
At the invitation of Refugees International and sponsored by the Soros Foundation, she traveled to the war-torn Bosnia and Herzegovina region of former-Yugoslavia in an effort to help bring more attention to the sufferin
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Released album “Le meilleur de Joan Baez”.
Released album “Play Me Backwards”.
Released album “Brothers in Arms”.
Released album “10.000 Miles”.
Released album “Speaking of Dreams”.
Released album “Queen of Hearts”.
Released album “No Woman No Cry”.
Released album “Imagine”.
Released album “Recently”.
Baez's second autobiography, called And a Voice to Sing With, was published and became a New York Times bestseller
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Released album “Classics, Volume 8”.
Released album “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”.
Released album “The Joan Baez Ballad Book, Volume 1”.
Released album “The Joan Baez Ballad Book, Volume 2”.
Appeared on the Grammy Awards, performing Dylan's anthemic "Blowin' in the Wind", a song she first performed twenty years earlier
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“I tend more towards Buddhist and Native American thought. For me, the spirits are quite real.”
Released album “Die Schönsten Lieder”.
“(about Woodstock) I think it was fantastic. I think the only way its been overdone was thinking it changed the world, politically and as far as the war went. It was only a part of things. It wasn’t it.”
“(If you could speak to your younger self, what would you tell her?) Take it easy. Take a break. Relax a little.”
“I just sing when I feel like singing, feels sort of like exploding.”
“We are left in the dust right now and I don’t know if disappointed is the word. I’d say “overwhelmed” because nobody back in the 1960s or 1970s could have imagined anything this fuckin’ awful.”
“I’ve never taken much time to do nothing, which I think is pretty important, especially at my age, and sort of contemplating what is coming. In this culture, we spend most of our time trying to avoid it. I would like to have more of a Buddhist approach.”
Baez was given honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees by Antioch University and Rutgers University for her political activism and the "universality of her music"
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Released album “Honest Lullaby”.
Released album “The Joan Baez Country Music Album”.
Released album “Joan Baez”.
Released album “Satisfied Mind”.
Performed at several benefit concerts to defeat the Briggs Initiative, which proposed banning openly gay people from teaching in public schools in California
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Released album “Blowin' Away”.
Released album “The Best of Joan C. Baez”.
Released album “The Songbook”.
Released album “If I Knew”.
Released album “Gulf Winds”.
Released album “The Joan Baez Lovesong Album”.
Released album “Golden hour presents Joan Baez”.
Released album “Greatest Hits”.
Awarded Thomas Merton Award (1975).
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Released album “Diamonds & Rust”.
Released album “House of the Rising Sun”.
Released album “The Contemporary Ballad Book”.
Released album “Gracias a la vida”.
For inclusion on her Spanish-language album Gracias a la Vida
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Released album “Joan Baez Profiles”.
Released album “Hits/Greatest & Others”.
Released album “Where Are You Now, My Son?”.
Released album “Come From the Shadows”.
Released album “Greatest Hits, Volume 2”.
Released album “The Joan Baez Ballad Book”.
Baez joined a peace delegation traveling to North Vietnam, both to address human rights in the region, and to deliver Christmas mail to American prisoners of war
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Released album “Blessed Are…”.
Which ignited the prolonged nine-month Bangladesh Liberation War
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To cut ties with the label that had released her albums since 1960
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Released album “The First Ten Years”.
Released album “Поёт Джоан Баэз в собственном сопровождении на гитаре”.
Released album “Joan Baez on Vanguard”.
Released album “One Day at a Time”.
Released album “David's Album”.
Released album “Any Day Now”.
Released album “Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time”.
Released album “The Best of Joan Baez”.
Baez published her first memoir, Daybreak (by Dial Press)
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Baez traveled to Nashville, Tennessee, where a marathon recording session resulted in two albums
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Discussing the resistance to the draft during the Vietnam War
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Released album “Joan”.
Having blocked the entrance of the Armed Forces Induction Center in Oakland, California, and spent over a month in jail
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Released album “Noël”.
Baez's autobiography, Daybreak, was released
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Released album “Farewell, Angelina”.
Founded together the Institute for the Study of Non-violence in Carmel Valley, California with Sandperl running the general operations and funding coming from Baez
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Baez announced that she would be opening a school to teach nonviolent protest
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Released album “Joan Baez/5”.
Released album “Joan Baez in San Francisco”.
Publicly endorsed resisting taxes by withholding sixty percent of her 1963 income taxes
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Founded the Institute for the Study of Nonviolence (along with her mentor Sandperl) and encouraged draft resistance at her concerts
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Baez appeared on the cover of Time Magazine—a rare honor then for a musician
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Released album “Joan Baez, Vol. 2”.
My manager sending me this newspaper (clipping) in the mail (which) read, 'Joan Baez Town Hall Concert, SRO
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At the 92nd Street Y and on November 11, 1961, Baez played her first major New York concert at a sold-out performance at Town Hall
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Released album “Folksingers ’Round Harvard Square”.
Baez and her family moved from the San Francisco area to Boston, Massachusetts, after her father accepted a faculty position at MIT
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Baez bought her first Gibson acoustic guitar
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Baez first heard Martin Luther King Jr
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Born 1941-01-09.
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