Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American folk singer, songwriter and activist.
Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American folk singer, songwriter and activist.
Baez has a distinctive vocal style, with a strong vibrato. Her recordings include many topical songs and material dealing with social issues.
Baez began her career performing in coffeehouses in Boston and Cambridge, and rose to fame as an unbilled performer at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival. 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, and stayed on the charts for two years.
Baez had a popular hit song with "Diamonds & Rust" and hit covers of Phil Ochs's "There but for Fortune" and The Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". Other songs associated with Baez include "Farewell, Angelina", "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word", "Joe Hill", "Sweet Sir Galahad" and "We Shall Overcome". She performed three of the songs at the 1969 Woodstock Festival, helped to bring the songs of Bob Dylan to national prominence, and has displayed a lifelong commitment to political and social activism in the fields of nonviolence, civil rights, human rights and the environment.
Baez performed publicly for over 52 years, releasing over 30 albums. Fluent in Spanish as well as in English, she has also recorded songs in at least six other languages. She is regarded as a folk singer, although her music has diversified since the 1960s, encompassing everything from folk rock and pop to country and gospel music. Although a songwriter herself, Baez is generally regarded as an interpreter of other people's work, having recorded songs by The Allman Brothers Band, The Beatles, Jackson Browne, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, The Rolling Stones, Pete Seeger, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, and many others. In recent years, she has found success interpreting songs of modern songwriters such as Ryan Adams, Steve Earle and Natalie Merchant.
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External links
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Filmography (Movies)
Newport and the Great Folk Dream
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:05/09/2025
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
Character:Self
Release Date:28/03/2025
Stepping Into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center
Character:
Release Date:22/12/2024
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:12/11/2024
Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame: Inaugural Induction Ceremony
Character:Self - interviewee / performer
Release Date:18/10/2024
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
Character:Self
Release Date:06/10/2023
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Character:Self (voice)
Release Date:19/11/2022
Ennio
Character:Self
Release Date:17/02/2022
A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
Character:Self
Release Date:14/10/2021
Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:22/06/2021
Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:13/03/2020
Rollin' Rain and Hard Thunder: A Compilation Film
Character:Self
Release Date:27/07/2019
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Character:The Balladeer
Release Date:11/06/2019
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
Character:Self
Release Date:24/05/2019
Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970
Character:Self
Release Date:01/03/2019
Joan Baez: The Fare Thee Well Tour 2018/2019
Character:Self
Release Date:01/02/2019
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: In Concert 2014-2017
Character:Self
Release Date:24/04/2018
King in the Wilderness
Character:Self
Release Date:22/01/2018
Joan Baez: 75th Birthday Celebration
Character:
Release Date:06/05/2016
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
Character:Self - Special Guest
Release Date:20/12/2015
... Sings Dylan II
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:06/11/2015
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:25/11/2014
Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited
Character:Self
Release Date:29/07/2014
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
Character:Self
Release Date:13/12/2013
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/2013
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
Character:Self
Release Date:05/01/2011
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
Character:Self
Release Date:14/10/2009
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Character:Self
Release Date:12/09/2009
Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
Character:Self
Release Date:09/08/2009
Bulles de Vian
Character:Self
Release Date:18/06/2009
Woodstock: Untold Stories
Character:Self
Release Date:09/06/2009
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival
Character:Self
Release Date:07/12/2007
65 Revisited
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:28/11/2007
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
Character:Self
Release Date:14/09/2007
Slacker Uprising
Character:Self
Release Date:07/09/2007
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Character:Self
Release Date:21/07/2005
Live Aid
Character:Self
Release Date:16/11/2004
Rolling Thunder Revue - 1975-1976 Video Anthology
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/2004
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Character:Self
Release Date:04/12/2002
Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival
Character:Self
Release Date:15/02/1996
Woodstock Directors cut
Character:Self
Release Date:01/07/1994
Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work
Character:Self
Release Date:31/12/1993
Berkeley in the Sixties
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:23/04/1990
We Shall Overcome
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1989
The Return of Bruno
Character:Joan Baez
Release Date:07/02/1987
In Remembrance of Martin
Character:Self
Release Date:08/02/1986
Live Aid
Character:Self
Release Date:13/07/1985
Merton: A Film Biography
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1984
Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1984
Renaldo and Clara
Character:The Woman in White
Release Date:25/01/1978
The Memory of Justice
Character:Self
Release Date:04/10/1976
Bob Dylan: Hard Rain
Character:Self
Release Date:14/09/1976
Bob Dylan: Rolling Thunder Revue, Clearwater 1976
Character:
Release Date:22/04/1976
Sing Sing Thanksgiving
Character:Self
Release Date:03/04/1974
The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1973
Character:
Release Date:31/12/1973
Scruggs: A Festival of Music
Character:Self
Release Date:01/06/1972
B.B. King & Joan Baez - Live At Sing Sing
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1972
The Making of Silent Running
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1972
Celebration at Big Sur
Character:Self
Release Date:10/12/1971
Dynamite Chicken
Character:
Release Date:20/01/1971
Wondering About Things
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1971
Joan Baez - Blessed Are
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1971
Carry It On
Character:Self
Release Date:26/08/1970
Woodstock
Character:Self
Release Date:26/03/1970
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:24/03/1970
Festival
Character:Self
Release Date:23/10/1967
Dont Look Back
Character:Self
Release Date:17/05/1967
The Big T.N.T. Show
Character:Self
Release Date:22/12/1965
The March
Character:Self
Release Date:31/12/1964
Television Appearances
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
Character:Self - Musician and Activist
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Character:
Q&A
Character:Self - Panelist
Folk Britannia
Character:Self (archival footage)
Where Are They Now?
Character:Self
Leute heute
Character:Self
Le monde est à vous
Character:Self
Sacrée Soirée
Character:Self
Champs-Elysées
Character:Self
Fame
Character:
Heut' abend
Character:Self
Okay
Character:Self
Please Turn the Page
Character:Self
The Muppet Show
Character:Self - Special Guest Star
Numéro un
Character:Self
Rockpalast
Character:
The Midnight Special
Character:Self
Le Grand Échiquier
Character:Self - Main Guest
Le Grand Échiquier
Character:Self
Playboy After Dark
Character:
The Dick Cavett Show
Character:Self - Guest
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
Character:Self
Joan Baez In Concert
Character:Self (archive footage)
Tonight in Person
Character:Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character:Self
The Mike Douglas Show
Character:Self
Discorama
Character:Self
Images
