Acting
Joan Baez
EN, IT, FR, CS cinema · 77 credits
Born
9 January 1941 (age 85)
Birthplace
Staten Island, New York, USA
Also known as Joan Chandos Baez
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Baez, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
Newport and the Great Folk Dream
as Self (archive footage)
Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame: Inaugural Induction Ceremony
as Self - interviewee / performer
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
as Self (archive footage)
Ennio
as Self
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
as Self (voice)
Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends
as Self (archive footage)
Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort
as Self (archive footage)
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
as Self - Special Guest
... Sings Dylan II
as Self (archive footage)
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
as Self (archive footage)
Sharon Isbin: Troubadour
as Self - interviewee
Bulles de Vian
as Self
Slacker Uprising
as Self
65 Revisited
as Self (archive footage)
Rolling Thunder Revue - 1975-1976 Video Anthology
as Self (archive footage)
Live Aid
as Self
Berkeley in the Sixties
as Self (archive footage)
The Return of Bruno
as Joan Baez
Live Aid
as Self
Renaldo and Clara
as The Woman in White
Silent Running
Theme Song Performance
Dynamite Chicken
as Self
Woodstock
as Self
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
Festival
as Self
The March
as Self