Joan Baez

Joan Chandos Baez was born on 9 January 1941 in Staten Island, New York. Her father was a physicist, born in Mexico, and her mother of Scottish and English descent. She grew up in New York and California, and when her father took a faculty position in Massachusetts, she attended Boston University and began to sing in coffeehouses and small clubs.

Joan Baez, American folksinger, is of Mexican, Scottish, and English descent. Many of her songs have a political message, and she has been an activist for peace and human rights.

In some of her words:

My concern has always been for the people who are victimized, unable to speak for themselves and who need outside help.

All serious daring starts from within.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.

If it's natural to kill, why do men have to go into training to learn how?