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18
Gender
Female
Birthday
February 20, 1941 ( 83 years old )
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Canadian-born American singer-songwriter, guitarist, political activist, and visual artist known especially for her use of music to promote awareness of issues affecting Native Americans. Orphaned as an infant in Canada when her mother, a Plains Cree, died in an auto accident, Sainte-Marie was adopted by an U.S. couple of Mi’kmaq ancestry and raised in Massachusetts & Maine. Her earliest days as a self-taught folk singer were spent shaking up the coffeehouses and consciousnesses in Greenwich Village and helping Joni Mitchell get discovered. Along with her lifelong commitment to and advocacy for Indigenous and Aboriginal people around the world, she has changed the education system from within, and maintained an unwavering passion for social justice, equality and the Earth mixed with her love of sound and songs. Her legacy is that of as an ever-curious, ever-evolving, and technologically pioneering musician, producer, composer and artist — despite her inability to read a note of music.
Known For
Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie
2010-12-08Buffy
2010-09-01The Broken Chain
1993-11-11Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
2022-09-08Uranium
1990-01-01Broken Rainbow
1985-05-05As Long as the Rivers Run
1971-01-01Festival
1967-10-23