Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American folk singer, songwriter and activist.
Baez has a distinctive vocal style, with a strong vibrato. Her recordings include many topical songs and material dealing with social issues.
Baez began her career performing in coffeehouses in Boston and Cambridge, and rose to fame as an unbilled performer at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival. 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 charts for two years.
Baez had a popular hit song with "Diamonds & Rust" and hit covers of Phil Ochs's "There but for Fortune" and The Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". Other songs associated with Baez include "Farewell, Angelina", "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word", "Joe Hill", "Sweet Sir Galahad" and "We Shall Overcome". She performed three of the songs at the 1969 Woodstock Festival, helped to bring the songs of Bob Dylan to national prominence, and has displayed a lifelong commitment to political and social activism in the fields of nonviolence, civil rights, human rights and the environment.
Baez performed publicly for over 52 years, releasing over 30 albums. Fluent in Spanish as well as in English, she has also recorded songs in at least six other languages. She is regarded as a folk singer, although her music has diversified since the 1960s, encompassing everything from folk rock and pop to country and gospel music. Although a songwriter herself, Baez is generally regarded as an interpreter of other people's work, having recorded songs by The Allman Brothers Band, The Beatles, Jackson Browne, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, The Rolling Stones, Pete Seeger, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, and many others. In recent years, she has found success interpreting songs of modern songwriters such as Ryan Adams, Steve Earle and Natalie Merchant.
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Known For
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
Self
2025
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
Self - Musician and Activist · (1 episode)
2025
Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame: Inaugural Induction Ceremony
Self - interviewee / performer
2024
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
Self
2023
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Self (voice)
2022
Ennio
Self
2022
A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
Self
2021
Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends
Self (archive footage)
2021
Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort
Self (archive footage)
2020
Rollin' Rain and Hard Thunder: A Compilation Film
Self
2019
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
The Balladeer
2019
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
Self
2019
Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970
Self
2019
Joan Baez: The Fare Thee Well Tour 2018/2019
Self
2019
King in the Wilderness
Self
2018
Joan Baez: 75th Birthday Celebration
2016
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
Self
2015
... Sings Dylan II
Self (archive footage)
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
(1 episode)
2015
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
Self (archive footage)
2014
Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited
Self
2014
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
Self
2013
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
Self
2013
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
Self
2011
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
Self
2009
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Self
2009
Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
Self
2009
Bulles de Vian
Self
2009
Woodstock: Untold Stories
Self
2009
Q&A
Self - Panelist · (1 episode)
2008
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival
Self
2007
65 Revisited
Self (archive footage)
2007
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
Self
2007
Slacker Uprising
Self
2007
Folk Britannia
Self (archival footage) · (1 episode)
2006
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Self
2005
Live Aid
Self
2004
Rolling Thunder Revue - 1975-1976 Video Anthology
Self (archive footage)
2004
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Self
2002
Where Are They Now?
Self · (1 episode)
1999
Leute heute
Self · (1 episode)
1997
Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival
Self
1996
The History of Rock 'n' Roll
Self
1995
Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work
Self
1993
Berkeley in the Sixties
Self (archive footage)
1990
Le monde est à vous
Self · (1 episode)
1987
Sacrée soirée
Self · (2 episodes)
1987
The Return of Bruno
Joan Baez
1987
In Remembrance of Martin
Self
1986
Live Aid
Self
1985
Merton: A Film Biography
Self
1984
Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
Self
1984
Champs-Elysées
Self · (2 episodes)
1982
Fame
(1 episode)
1982
Heut' abend
Self · (2 episodes)
1980
Okay
Self · (1 episode)
1979
Renaldo and Clara
The Woman in White
1978
Please Turn the Page
Self · (1 episode)
1977
The Memory of Justice
Self
1976
Bob Dylan: Hard Rain
Self
1976
The Muppet Show
Self - Special Guest Star · (1 episode)
1976
Bob Dylan: Rolling Thunder Revue, Clearwater 1976
1976
Numéro un
Self · (1 episode)
1975
Rockpalast
(1 episode)
1974
Sing Sing Thanksgiving
Self
1974
The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1973
1973
The Midnight Special
Self · (1 episode)
1972
Scruggs: A Festival of Music
Self
1972
Le Grand Échiquier
Self - Main Guest · (1 episode)
1972
Le Grand Échiquier
Self · (2 episodes)
1972
B.B. King & Joan Baez - Live At Sing Sing
Self
1972
The Making of Silent Running
Self
1972
Celebration at Big Sur
Self
1971
Dynamite Chicken
1971
Wondering About Things
1971
Joan Baez - Blessed Are
1971
Carry It On
Self
1970
Woodstock
Self
1970
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Self (archive footage)
1970
Playboy After Dark
(1 episode)
1969
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
1968
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
Self · (1 episode)
1967
Festival
Self
1967
Dont Look Back
Self
1967
The Big T.N.T. Show
Self
1965
Joan Baez In Concert
Self (archive footage) · (2 episodes)
1965
The March
Self
1964
Tonight in Person
Self · (1 episode)
1963
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · (1 episode)
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
Self · (3 episodes)
1961
Discorama
Self · (1 episode)
1959