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Joan Baez

Actor, Additional CreditsBorn January 9, 1941 (85 years)
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.

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Known For

  • Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
  • Renaldo and Clara
  • The Boys Who Said NO!
  • Banjoman

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    2025
    Everybody's Live with John Mulaney (TV Series) · as Self - Musician And Activist
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    Bettina · as Self
    2021
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    Mothers of the Revolution · as Self - American Activist & Musician
    2021
    Song for Cesar · as Self
    2021
    Ennio · as Self
    2021
    2021
    Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends · as Self (archive Footage)
    2021
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    2020
    Boris Vian, un coeur qui battait trop fort · as Self (archive Footage)
    2019
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    We Blew It · as Self
    2017
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    2015
    Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour Live · as Self - Special Guest
    2015
    The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (TV Series) · as Self - Guest
    2014
    2014
    Sharon Isbin: Troubadour · as Self - Interviewee
    2013
    2013
    The Big Interview (TV Series) · as Self
    2013
    The March · as Self
    2012
    2012
    2012
    CBS Saturday Morning (TV Series) · as Self - Guest
    2012
    CBS Mornings (TV Series) · as Self
    2011
    Sing Your Song · as Self
    2011
    Save the Farm · as Self - Singer & Activist
    2010
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    C à Vous (TV Series) · as Self
    2009
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    Skavlan (TV Series) · as Self - Guest And Musical Performer
    2008
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    Q+A (TV Series) · as Self - Panelist
    2008
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    65 Revisited · as Self (archive Footage)
    2007
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    Slacker Uprising · as Self
    2007
    2005
    Sunday Morning (TV Series) · as Self
    2005
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    Live Aid · as Self
    2004
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    Tavis Smiley (TV Series) · as Self
    2003
    Get Up, Stand Up (TV Series) · as Self - Interviewee
    2003
    2003
    Soundstage (TV Series) · as Self
    2002
    1999
    Where Are They Now? (TV Series) · as Self
    1999
    Na plovárne (TV Series) · as Self
    1998
    Roll on Sunday (TV Series) · as Self
    1998
    ARTE Journal Clips (TV Series) · as Self
    1997
    Leute heute (TV Series) · as Self
    1996
    Dancing in the Street (TV Series) · as Self
    1996
    1995
    Rock & Roll (TV Series) · as Self
    1995
    The History of Rock 'n' Roll (TV Series) · as Self
    1994
    1994
    Woodstock Diary · as Self
    1994
    A Century of Women (TV Series) · as Self
    1993
    1992
    Late Show with David Letterman (TV Series) · as Self - Musical Guest
    1992
    Later... with Jools Holland (TV Series) · as Self
    1990
    Berkeley in the Sixties · as Self (archive Footage)
    1990
    1988
    American Experience (TV Series) · as Self - Musician
    1988
    LIVE with Kelly and Mark (TV Series) · as Self
    1987
    The Return of Bruno · as Joan Baez
    1986
    1985
    American Masters (TV Series) · as Self
    1985
    1985
    Live Aid · as Self
    1984
    Merton · as Self
    1983
    In Our Hands · as Self
    1982
    America This Morning (TV Series) · as Self
    1982
    Wogan (TV Series) · as Self
    1982
    Late Night With David Letterman (TV Series) · as Self
    1982
    Champs-Elysees (TV Series) · as Self
    1982
    Fame (TV Series) · as Joan Baez
    1981
    Wetten, dass..? (TV Series) · as Self - Musician
    1980
    Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War (TV Series) · as Self
    1980
    Hour Magazine (TV Series) · as Self
    1979
    1978
    20/20 (TV Series) · as Self
    1977
    1976
    1976
    Hard Rain · as Self
    1976
    The Muppet Show (TV Series) · as Self - Special Guest Star
    1975
    Number One (TV Series) · as Self
    1973
    Rebel · as Joan Baez
    1973
    Tomorrow with Tom Snyder (TV Series) · as Self
    1973
    Tomorrow with Tom Snyder (TV Series) · as Self
    1972
    The Midnight Special (TV Series) · as Self
    1972
    1971
    1971
    Dynamite Chicken · as Self
    1971
    1970
    Evening at Pops (TV Series) · as Self
    1970
    Woodstock · as Self
    1970
    Carry It On · as Self
    1969
    1969
    The David Frost Show (TV Series) · as Self
    1968
    The Dick Cavett Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest
    1967
    TTT (TV Series) · as Self
    1967
    Festival · as Self
    1967
    Don't Look Back · as Self
    1967
    The Joey Bishop Show (TV Series) · as Self
    1967
    The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (TV Series) · as Self
    1965
    1964
    ABC's Nightlife (TV Series) · as Self
    1964
    Die Drehscheibe (TV Series) · as Self - Musician
    1964
    Top of the Pops (TV Series) · as Self
    1962
    1962
    The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series) · as Self
    1961
    The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series) · as Self
    1952
    Today (TV Series) · as Self
    1952
    CBS Television Workshop (TV Series) · as Self - Musician

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