Joan Baez

Joan Baez was born on January 9, 1941 in Staten Island, New York, and the second of three daughters to Dr. Albert Baez, a physicist, and Joan Bridge Baez. Her mother was English, Scotish, daughter of the Episcopal minister and professor of drama who had migrated to the United States, and her father was of Mexican origin, the son of a minister. I took her father's activities as a researcher,