Joan Baez

Birth Name:

Joan Chandos Baez

Birth Place:

Staten Island, New York City, New York, United States

Profession

Soundtrack, Music department, Actress, Sound department

In 2011, Amnesty International named its Outstanding Inspirational Service Award in her honor
Received the 2006 Legal Community Against Violence Distinguished Leadership Award
Is the daughter of physicist Albert Baez, who helped develop the x-ray microscope
Is the older sister of fellow folk singer Mimi Farina
Started becoming interested in music after her father's friend gave her a ukulele
Is best known for her involvement in the counterculture of the 1960s
Possesses the ability to fluently speak Spanish and English

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