Joan
Baez
es una prolífica artista. Pacifista y comprometida con las luchas sociales Joan Baez participó en varios
movimientos, marchas y demostraciones contra Vietnam,
la violencia y las formas alternativas a una salida violenta. Más abajo, en una
entrevista de 1967, cuenta sobre su escuela y el decir no a la conscripción
militar. Para saber: las protestas de
Berkeley
Joan Chandos Baez (born in 1941) is an American singer, songwriter,
musician, and activist whose contemporary folk music often includes songs
of protest or social justice. Baez has performed publicly for
over 60 years, releasing over 30 albums. Fluent in Spanish and English, she has
also recorded songs in at least six other languages. Although regarded as a
folk singer, her music has diversified since the counterculture era of the
1960s, and encompasses genres such as folk rock, pop, country and gospel music.
She was one of
the first major artists to record the songs of Bob Dylan in the early 1960s; Baez
was already an internationally celebrated artist and did much to popularize his
early songwriting efforts. Baez also
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 born on Staten Island, New York. Joan's grandfather, the Reverend Alberto Baez, left the Catholic
Church to become a Methodist minister and moved to the U.S. when her father was
two years old. Her mother, Joan Baez (née Bridge), was born in Edinburgh,
Scotland, in 1913 as the second daughter of an English Anglican priest.
