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Joan Baez

Legendary Folk Musician & Human Rights Activist

Joan Baez

Joan Baez

Legendary Folk Musician & Human Rights Activist

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Joan Baez Biography

Joan Baez was born on January 9, 1941, in Staten Island, New York. Her father, Albert V. Baez, was a physicist who came to the United States from Mexico at a very early age, and her mother was of western European descent. Joan inherited her father's dark complexion, and the occasional racial prejudice (hatred of a race) she suffered as a child probably led to her later involvement in the civil rights movement, a movement that called for equal rights for all races. Although as an adult she claimed not to share her parents' strict religious faith, it undoubtedly contributed to what some called her keen "social conscience."

Baez was exposed to an intellectual atmosphere with classical music during her childhood, but rejected piano lessons in favor of the guitar and rock and roll. Her father's research and teaching positions took the family to various American and foreign cities. When Joan was ten, she spent a year in Iraq with her family. There she was exposed to the harsh and intensely poor conditions of the Iraqi people, something that undoubtedly had an affect on her later career as a singer and activist. Baez went on to attend high school in Palo Alto, California, where she excelled in music more than in academic subjects. Shortly after her high school graduation in 1958, her family moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where Baez's interest in folk music surfaced after visiting a coffee shop where amateur folk singers performed.

At a time in our country's history when it was neither safe nor fashionable, Joan put herself on the line countless times, and her life's work was mirrored in her music. She sang about freedom and Civil Rights everywhere, from the backs of flatbed trucks to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's March on Washington in 1963. In 1964, she withheld 60% of her income tax from the IRS to protest military spending, and participated in the birth of the Free Speech movement at UC Berkeley. A year later she co-founded the Institute For The Study of Nonviolence near her home in Carmel Valley. In 1966, Joan Baez stood in the fields alongside Cesar Chavez and migrant farm workers striking for fair wages, and opposed capital punishment at San Quentin during a Christmas vigil. The following year she turned her attention to the draft resistance movement. As the war in Vietnam escalated in the late '60s and early '70s, she traveled to Hanoi with the U.S.-based Liaison Committee and helped establish Amnesty International on the West Coast.

The soundtrack to those times was provided by a stunning soprano whose natural vibrato lent a taut, nervous tension to everything she sang. Yet even as an 18-year-old, introduced onstage at the first annual Newport Folk Festival in 1959, and during her apprenticeship on the Boston-Cambridge coffeehouse folk music circuit leading up to the recording of her first solo album for Vanguard Records in the summer of 1960, Joan's repertoire reflected a different sensibility from her peers. In the traditional songs she mastered, there was an acknowledgment of the human condition - underdogs in the first, inequity among the races, the desperation of poverty, the futility of war, romantic betrayal, unrequited love, spiritual redemption, and grace.

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Joan Baez Videos

  • Joan Baez, Diamonds and Rust - Live, 1975 - YouTube
    Joan Baez, Diamonds and Rust - Live, 1975 - YouTube
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    Joan Baez (NRK Lydverket)
  • Joan Baez - 2009 Interview
    Joan Baez - 2009 Interview
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Joan Baez Books

  • And A Voice to Sing With: A Memoir
    And A Voice to Sing With: A Memoir

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  • What topics does Joan Baez speak about?

    Joan Baez is a keynote speaker and industry expert whose speaking topics include Climate Change, Earth Day, Energy, Entertainers, Entertainment, Environment, Green and Sustainability, Influential Women, Music, Speakers by Industry, Women's Issues.

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Joan Baez is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics . The estimated speaking fee range to book Joan Baez for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. Joan Baez generally travels from and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Pink, Sheryl Crow, Alanis Morissette, Alexandra Cousteau and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Joan Baez for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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