
Joan Baez
Department: Acting
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

Dont Look Back
1967

Merton: A Film Biography
1984

Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
2023

Woodstock
1970

Slacker Uprising
2007

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
2007

Berkeley in the Sixties
1990

Live Aid
1985

Ennio
2022

Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
2009

Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival
1996

Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009

Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013

The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival
2007

The Big T.N.T. Show
1965

B.B. King & Joan Baez - Live At Sing Sing
1972

Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work
1993

Wondering About Things
1971

Renaldo and Clara
1978

Carry It On
1970

Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
2013

A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
2021

Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited
2014

Celebration at Big Sur
1971

Joan Baez - Blessed Are
1971

Bob Dylan: Hard Rain
1976

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
2005

2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022

Dynamite Chicken
1971

The Making of Silent Running
1972

The March
1964

Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends
2021

Festival
1967

Scruggs: A Festival of Music
1972

Woodstock: Untold Stories
2009

The Return of Bruno
1987

The Memory of Justice
1976

Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
2009

Joan Baez: 75th Birthday Celebration
2016

King in the Wilderness
2018

The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
2014

Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
2002

Bulles de Vian
2009

Joan Baez: The Fare Thee Well Tour 2018/2019
2019

Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
2011

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019

Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
2019

Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970
2019

In Remembrance of Martin
1986

Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort
2020

The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1973
1973

Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
1984

Rolling Thunder Revue - 1975-1976 Video Anthology
2004

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970

Live Aid
2004

65 Revisited
2007

Sing Sing Thanksgiving
1974

Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
2015

Bob Dylan: Rolling Thunder Revue, Clearwater 1976
1976

Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame: Inaugural Induction Ceremony
2024

Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
2025

... Sings Dylan II
2015

Rollin' Rain and Hard Thunder: A Compilation Film
2019

Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: In Concert 2014-2017
2018

Stepping Into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center
2024

Newport and the Great Folk Dream
2025

Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
2024

Woodstock Directors cut
1994

Joan Baez released from jail in Oakland
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We Shall Overcome
1989

Fame
1982

Okay
1979

Tonight in Person
1963

The Muppet Show
1976

Where Are They Now?
1999

Playboy After Dark
1969

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015

The Midnight Special
1972

Folk Britannia
2006

Joan Baez In Concert
1965

The Mike Douglas Show
1961

Leute heute
1997

Le Grand Échiquier
1972

Le Grand Échiquier
1972

Numéro un
1975

Q&A
2008

Champs-Elysées
1982

Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
1967

The Dick Cavett Show
1968

Please Turn the Page
1977

Le monde est à vous
1987

Discorama
1959

Heut' abend
1980

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962

Sacrée Soirée
1987

Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
2025

Rockpalast
1974

Bains de Minuit
1987

Late Show with David Letterman
1993