Joan Baez

Joan Baez

JOAN BAEZ. American singer-songwriter, musician and activist whose contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest or social justice. She has performed publicly for over 55 years, releasing over 30 albums. She is regarded as a folk-singer, although her music has diversified since the counterculture days of the 1960s and now encompasses everything from folk / pop / country and gospel. 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 Billboard & other record album charts for two years. Her best known songs include ; Diamonds & Rust / There But For Fortune / The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down / Farewell Angelina / Love Is Just a Four Letter Word / Joe Hill / Sweet Sir Galahad and We Shall Overcome. She was one of the first major artists to record the songs of Bob Dylan in the early 1960s when already an internationally celebrated artist and did much to popularize his early songwriting efforts. She famously performed three songs at the 1969 Woodstock Festival and has displayed a lifelong commitment to political and social activism.

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