Joan Baez

 

Joan Baez (born in Staten Island, New York, USA, January 9, 1941, age 70 years) was a folk singer, songwriter and civil rights activists or fighters. He was born in Staten Island, New York from a Scottish mother and Mexican father. When Joan and her sister was a child, his parents had been Quakers or the character of social activists.

His musical career began in 1960, when he was doing solo gigs at the Newport Folk Festival. In the same year, he undertook his first concert in New York and released his first album. On March 26, 1968, she married David Harris, an activist, and divorced in 1971. Some of the issues the world has ever championed by Joan Baez is an anti-war protest, protest against the beating of black children in schools, and oppose U.S. government policies that interfere with the Vietnamese government to withhold 60% income tax for military needs. Joan Banez is the world's first artists which appeared in Sarajevo since the civil war in the area.