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Joan Baez

Joan Baez is an American singer-songwriter and activist renowned for her folk music and protest songs.

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Known for: American folk musician known for protest songs and social justice activism
Listed under: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

About Joan Baez

Her contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest and social justice. 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; at that time 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. 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". Baez was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 7, 2017.

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