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I saw first Joan Baez perform live at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester in , being at the time addicted to her first two studio albums, with their strange and mysterious songs such as &#;Silkie&#;, &#;Barbara Allen&#; and the &#;The Trees They Do Grow High&#;. inom recall that I was surprised and thrilled that the &#;Queen of Folk&#; was both funny and hip: joking and singing snatches of the Beatles and the Supremes. Tonight I watched Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound in the PBS American Masters series (streaming online until månad 10). For me, nearly 50 years have passed since inom first dropped the needle on a Baez skiva. However, the film&#;s director, Mary Wharton, writes on the PBS website that,

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Joan Chandos Baez is born on January 9 in Staten Island, New York, the middle daughter of physicist Dr. Albert Vinicio Baez and Joan Bridge Baez.

Joan spends a year living in Baghdad, Iraq, with her family when her father accepts a job there. Upon their return to the U.S., the family moves to California.

For the first time, Joan hears a young Martin Luther King, Jr. lecture on nonviolence and civil rights. She also buys her first guitar.

Joan commits her first act of civil disobedience by refusing to leave her high school (Palo Alto High School) during an air-raid drill. She also meets Gandhian scholar, Ira Sandperl, who becomes one of her strongest political influences.

Joan graduates from Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, California in June. She also records a demonstration album, but it fails to garner interest from record company executives and the project is shelved.

In late summer, the Baez family moves to Belmont, Massachusetts, when Joan's father accepts a te

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Joan Baez
Allmusic Biography : The most accomplished interpretive folksinger of the s, Joan Baez has influenced nearly every aspect of popular music in a career still going strong. Baez is possessed of a once-in-a-lifetime soprano, which, since the late 50s, she has put in the service of folk and pop music as well as a variety of political causes. Starting out in Boston, Baez first gained recognition at the Newport Folk Festival, then cut her debut album, Joan Baez (October ), for Vanguard Records. It was made up of 13 traditional songs given near-definitive treatment. A moderate success on release, the album took off after the breakthrough of Joan Baez, Vol. 2 (September ), and both albums became huge hits, as did Baezs third album, Joan Baez in Concert, Pt. 1 (September ). Each album went gold and stayed in the best-seller charts more than two years.

From to , Baez was the popular face of folk music, headlining festivals and concert tours and singing at political event