joan baez

     

"And a Voice to Sing With" & "Daybreak" are autobiographies by this famous folk singer

Trivia about joan baez

  • This folk singer & activist visited North Vietnam in 1972 & Bosnia in 1993
  • This "Where Are You Now, My Son" singer was noted for her anti-income tax & anti-war protests
  • This folkie had a No. 3 hit with "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"
  • This folk singer & anti-war activist is nicknamed "The Queen of Protest"
  • After she sang the anthem "We Shall Overcome" at a 1963 march, her version of it hit the charts
  • In 1967 the D.A.R. refused to allow this daughter of a Mexican-American physicist to perform at Constitution Hall