Joan Baez

Actor · Born January 9, 1941 · 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.

Acted in 8

2020s

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

2010s

2019
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
The Balladeer
80

1990s

1992
Later... with Jools Holland
TV · 69 Seasons · Talk

1980s

1987
The Return of Bruno
Joan Baez
1982
Fame
Joan Baez · 1 episode
70

1970s

1978
Renaldo and Clara
The Woman in White
1974
Rockpalast
TV · 13 Seasons · Reality TV

1960s

1969
Playboy After Dark
TV

Sound 3

1980s

1988
To Kill a Priest
Songs

1970s

1972
Silent Running
Theme Song Performance
67
1971
Sacco & Vanzetti
Songs
75

Appearances86

2020s

2025
Newport and the Great Folk Dream
Self (archive footage)
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
Self
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
Self - Musician and Activist · 1 episode
2024
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
Self (archive footage)
76
Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame: Inaugural Induction Ceremony
Self - interviewee / performer
2023
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
Self
76
2022
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Self (voice)
Ennio
Self
83
2021
A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
Self
Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends
Self (archive footage)
2020
Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort
Self (archive footage)

2010s

2019
Rollin' Rain and Hard Thunder: A Compilation Film
Self
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
Self
Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970
Self
Joan Baez: The Fare Thee Well Tour 2018/2019
Self
2018
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: In Concert 2014-2017
Self
King in the Wilderness
Self
86
2016
Too Hip for the Room: The Righteous Reign of Lord Buckley
Self
Joan Baez: 75th Birthday Celebration
Self
2015
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
Self - Special Guest
88
... Sings Dylan II
Self (archive footage)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest · 1 episode
69
2014
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
Self (archive footage)
Sharon Isbin: Troubadour
Self - interviewee
Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited
Self
2013
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
Self
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
Self
2011
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
Self

2000s

2009
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
Self
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Self
Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
Self
Bulles de Vian
Self
Woodstock: Untold Stories
Self
2008
Q&A
Self - Panelist · 1 episode
2007
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival
Self
65 Revisited
Self (archive footage)
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
Self
Slacker Uprising
Self
2005
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Self
2004
Live Aid
Self
Rolling Thunder Revue - 1975-1976 Video Anthology
Self (archive footage)
2002
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Self