Joan Baez
Acting
Born January 9, 1941 · Staten Island, New York, USA
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.
Films (69)
Newport and the Great Folk Dream
2025
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
2025
Stepping Into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center
2024
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
2024
Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame: Inaugural Induction Ceremony
2024
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
2023
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022
Ennio
2022
A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
2021
Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends
2021
Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort
2020
Rollin' Rain and Hard Thunder: A Compilation Film
2019
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
Joan Baez: The Fare Thee Well Tour 2018/2019
2019
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: In Concert 2014-2017
2018
King in the Wilderness
2018
Joan Baez: 75th Birthday Celebration
2016
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
2015
... Sings Dylan II
2015
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
2014
Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited
2014
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
2013
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
2011
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
2009
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009
Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
2009
Bulles de Vian
2009
Woodstock: Untold Stories
2009
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival
2007
65 Revisited
2007
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
2007
Slacker Uprising
2007
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
2005
Live Aid
2004
Rolling Thunder Revue - 1975-1976 Video Anthology
2004
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
2002
Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival
1996
Woodstock Directors cut
1994
Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work
1993
Berkeley in the Sixties
1990
We Shall Overcome
1989
The Return of Bruno
1987
In Remembrance of Martin
1986
Live Aid
1985
Merton: A Film Biography
1984
Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
1984
Renaldo and Clara
1978
The Memory of Justice
1976
Bob Dylan: Hard Rain
1976
Bob Dylan: Rolling Thunder Revue, Clearwater 1976
1976
Sing Sing Thanksgiving
1974
The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1973
1973
Scruggs: A Festival of Music
1972
B.B. King & Joan Baez - Live At Sing Sing
1972
The Making of Silent Running
1972
Celebration at Big Sur
1971
Dynamite Chicken
1971
Wondering About Things
1971
Joan Baez - Blessed Are
1971
Carry It On
1970
Woodstock
1970
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
Festival
1967
Dont Look Back
1967
The Big T.N.T. Show
1965
The March
1964