Joan Baez

Soprano Joan Baez brought folk music into the mainstream with her best-selling albums and beautiful renditions of traditional ballads and spirituals. Her first album, the self-titled Joan Baez (1960), collected 13 such songs. Baez was one of the first politically outspoken performers, an advocate for civil rights and the peace movement.

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