Joan Baez
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 9, 1941 (age 85)
- Place of birth
- Staten Island, New York, USA
- Credits
- 102
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
Ennio
2022Movie
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015TV
Self - Guest
The Muppet Show
1976TV
Self - Special Guest Star
Woodstock
1970Movie
Self
Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back
1967Movie
Self
Late Show with David Letterman
1993TV
Self - Musical Guest
Filmography
Newport and the Great Folk Dream
2025Movie
Self (archive footage)
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
2025Movie
Self
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
2025TV
Self - Musician and Activist
Stepping Into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center
2024Movie
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
2024Movie
Self (archive footage)
Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame: Inaugural Induction Ceremony
2024Movie
Self - interviewee / performer
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
2023Movie
Self
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022Movie
Self (voice)
Ennio
2022Movie
Self
A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
2021Movie
Self
Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends
2021Movie
Self (archive footage)
Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort
2020Movie
Self (archive footage)
Rollin' Rain and Hard Thunder: A Compilation Film
2019Movie
Self
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019Movie
The Balladeer
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
2019Movie
Self
Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970
2019Movie
Self
Joan Baez: The Fare Thee Well Tour 2018/2019
2019Movie
Self
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: In Concert 2014-2017
2018Movie
Self
King in the Wilderness
2018Movie
Self
Too Hip for the Room: The Righteous Reign of Lord Buckley
2016Movie
Self
Joan Baez: 75th Birthday Celebration
2016Movie
Self
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
2015Movie
Self - Special Guest
... Sings Dylan II
2015Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015TV
Self - Guest
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
2014Movie
Self (archive footage)
Sharon Isbin: Troubadour
2014Movie
Self - interviewee
Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited
2014Movie
Self
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
2013Movie
Self
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013Movie
Self
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
2011Movie
Self
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
2009Movie
Self
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009Movie
Self
Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
2009Movie
Self
Bulles de Vian
2009Movie
Self
Woodstock: Untold Stories
2009Movie
Self
Q&A
2008TV
Self - Panelist
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival
2007Movie
Self
65 Revisited
2007Movie
Self (archive footage)
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
2007Movie
Self
Slacker Uprising
2007Movie
Self
Folk Britannia
2006TV
Self (archival footage)
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
2005Movie
Self
Live Aid
2004Movie
Self
Rolling Thunder Revue - 1975-1976 Video Anthology
2004Movie
Self (archive footage)
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
2002Movie
Self
Where Are They Now?
1999TV
Self
Leute heute
1997TV
Self
Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival
1996Movie
Self
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
1994Movie
Self
Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work
1993Movie
Self
Late Show with David Letterman
1993TV
Self - Musical Guest
Later... with Jools Holland
1992TV
Berkeley in the Sixties
1990Movie
Self (archive footage)
We Shall Overcome
1989Movie
Self
Bains de Minuit
1987TV
Self
Le monde est à vous
1987TV
Self
Sacrée soirée
1987TV
Self
The Return of Bruno
1987Movie
Joan Baez
In Remembrance of Martin
1986Movie
Self
An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
1986Movie
Live Aid
1985Movie
Self
Merton: A Film Biography
1984Movie
Self
Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
1984Movie
Self
Champs-Elysées
1982TV
Self
Fame
1982TV
Joan Baez
Heut' abend
1980TV
Self
Okay
1979TV
Self
Renaldo and Clara
1978Movie
The Woman in White
Please Turn the Page
1977TV
Self
The Memory of Justice
1976Movie
Self
Bob Dylan: Hard Rain
1976Movie
Self
The Muppet Show
1976TV
Self - Special Guest Star
Bob Dylan: Rolling Thunder Revue, Clearwater 1976
1976Movie
Self
Numéro un
1975TV
Self
Rockpalast
1974TV
Sing Sing Thanksgiving
1974Movie
Self
The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1973
1973Movie
Self
The Midnight Special
1972TV
Self
Scruggs: A Festival of Music
1972Movie
Self
Le Grand Échiquier
1972TV
Self - Main Guest, Self
Sing Sing Thanksgiving
1972Movie
Self
The Making of Silent Running
1972Movie
Self
Celebration at Big Sur
1971Movie
Self
Dynamite Chicken
1971Movie
Self
Wondering About Things
1971Movie
Self
Joan Baez - Blessed Are
1971Movie
Self
Carry It On
1970Movie
Self
Woodstock
1970Movie
Self
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970Movie
Self (archive footage)
Playboy After Dark
1969TV
The Dick Cavett Show
1968TV
Self - Guest
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
1967TV
Self
Festival
1967Movie
Self
Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back
1967Movie
Self
The Big T.N.T. Show
1965Movie
Self
Joan Baez In Concert
1965TV
Self (archive footage)
The March
1964Movie
Self
Tonight in Person
1963TV
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962TV
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
1961TV
Self
Discorama
1959TV
Self
Joan Baez released from jail in Oakland
Movie