Post by the Scribe on Oct 20, 2023 6:17:08 GMT
8 Things You Didn’t Know About Joan Baez
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April 29, 2016 | Ariel Min
6. She is perfectly bilingual and even produced an album in Spanish.
Joan dedicated her first album sung entirely in Spanish to those suffering in Chile under the rule of Augusto Pinochet, a record that inspired Linda Ronstadt, later in the ‘80s, to begin recording the Spanish songs of her heritage.
One of the songs Joan sang on that album, “No Nos Moveran” (We Shall Not Be Moved) had been banned from public singing in Spain for more than 40 years under Generalissimo Franco’s rule and was excised from copies of the LP sold there. Joan became the first major artist to sing the song publicly when she performed it on a controversial television appearance in Madrid in 1977, three years after the dictator’s death.
