This photo, taken at a Washington D.C. civil rights rally in 1963, shows folk
singers Joan Baez and Bob Dylan performing. Getty Images/National
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Joan Baez

(b. Jan. 9, 1941, Staten Island, N.Y., U.S.)

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merican folksinger and political activist Joan Chandos
Baez interested young audiences in folk music during
the 1960s. Despite the inevitable fading of the folk music
revival, Baez continued to be a popular performer into the
21st century. By touring with younger performers through-
out the world and staying politically engaged, she reached
a new audience both in the United States and abroad.
The daughter of a physicist of Mexican descent whose
teaching and research took him to various communities
in New York, California, and elsewhere, Baez moved often

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