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Joan Baez
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Actor, Songwriter Born: January 9, 1941 in Staten Island, New York City, NY Biography:While her contributions to motion pictures have been minimal, American singer/composer "Joan Baez" is perhaps the best known and most influential contributor to the field of 1960s protest songs. The daughter of a Mexican-born physicist father and a Quaker mother, Joan scored her first public success at age 18, when she was featured at the Newport Festival. Her fame was furthered by the first of several tours with "Bob Dylan" in 1963. Joan was popular enough in the late 1960s to be cruelly parodied by cartoonist "Al Capp", who created a folksinger named Joanie Phoanie who sang for the oppressed while tooling around in a Rolls Royce. This caricature couldn't have been farther from the truth: while many other prominent protest singers succumbed to the trappings of money and fame, Joan remained steadfastly true to her causes. In 1965, she helped create the Institute for Non-Violence in California; a few... Full Biography
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