Joan Baez
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 9, 1941 (age 85)
- Birthplace
- Staten Island, New York, USA
Biography
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
Photos
Filmography
Joan Baez released from jail in Oakland
Movie
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
Movie · as Self
Newport and the Great Folk Dream
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
TV · as Self - Musician and Activist · 1 ep
Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame: Inaugural Induction Ceremony
Movie · as Self - interviewee / performer
Stepping Into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center
Movie
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
Movie · as Self
Ennio
Movie · as Self
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Movie · as Self (voice)
A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
Movie · as Self
Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Joan Baez: The Fare Thee Well Tour 2018/2019
Movie · as Self
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Movie · as The Balladeer
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
Movie · as Self
Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970
Movie · as Self
Rollin' Rain and Hard Thunder: A Compilation Film
Movie · as Self
King in the Wilderness
Movie · as Self
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: In Concert 2014-2017
Movie · as Self
Joan Baez: 75th Birthday Celebration
Movie · as Self
Too Hip for the Room: The Righteous Reign of Lord Buckley
Movie · as Self
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
Movie · as Self - Special Guest
... Sings Dylan II
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited
Movie · as Self
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Sharon Isbin: Troubadour
Movie · as Self - interviewee
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
Movie · as Self
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
Movie · as Self
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
Movie · as Self
Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
Movie · as Self
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Movie · as Self
Woodstock: Untold Stories
Movie · as Self
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
Movie · as Self
Bulles de Vian
Movie · as Self
Q&A
TV · as Self - Panelist · 1 ep
Slacker Uprising
Movie · as Self
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
Movie · as Self
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival
Movie · as Self
65 Revisited
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Folk Britannia
TV · as Self (archival footage) · 1 ep
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Movie · as Self
Rolling Thunder Revue - 1975-1976 Video Anthology
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Live Aid
Movie · as Self
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Movie · as Self
Where Are They Now?
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Leute heute
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival
Movie · as Self
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
Movie · as Self
Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work
Movie · as Self
Late Show with David Letterman
TV · as Self - Musical Guest · 1 ep
Later... with Jools Holland
TV · 1 ep
Berkeley in the Sixties
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
We Shall Overcome
Movie · as Self
The Return of Bruno
Movie · as Joan Baez
Le monde est à vous
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Sacrée soirée
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Bains de Minuit
TV · as Self · 1 ep
In Remembrance of Martin
Movie · as Self
An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
Movie
Live Aid
Movie · as Self
Merton: A Film Biography
Movie · as Self
Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
Movie · as Self
Fame
TV · as Joan Baez · 1 ep
Champs-Elysées
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Heut' abend
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Okay
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Renaldo and Clara
Movie · as The Woman in White
Please Turn the Page
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Bob Dylan: Hard Rain
Movie · as Self
The Memory of Justice
Movie · as Self
Bob Dylan: Rolling Thunder Revue, Clearwater 1976
Movie · as Self
The Muppet Show
TV · as Self - Special Guest Star · 1 ep
Numéro un
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Sing Sing Thanksgiving
Movie · as Self
Rockpalast
TV · 1 ep
The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1973
Movie · as Self
Sing Sing Thanksgiving
Movie · as Self
The Making of Silent Running
Movie · as Self
Scruggs: A Festival of Music
Movie · as Self
The Midnight Special
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Le Grand Échiquier
TV · as Self - Main Guest · 1 ep
Wondering About Things
Movie · as Self
Celebration at Big Sur
Movie · as Self
Joan Baez - Blessed Are
Movie · as Self
Dynamite Chicken
Movie · as Self
Woodstock
Movie · as Self
Carry It On
Movie · as Self
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Playboy After Dark
TV · 1 ep
The Dick Cavett Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back
Movie · as Self
Festival
Movie · as Self
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Big T.N.T. Show
Movie · as Self
Joan Baez In Concert
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 2 eps
The March
Movie · as Self
Tonight in Person
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Discorama
TV · as Self · 1 ep