Roberta Joan Anderson was born in 1943 Canadian singer / songwriter and painter, one of the most important artists in the history of contemporary music. A
12 years starts to paint and write poetry, buy a ukulele (small 4-string guitar to Hawaiian home) and played at parties and clubs of Saskatoon, a city where he lives with his family.
In 1964 left college and moved to Toronto and become a folk singer, finds work as a saleswoman and frequent the coffee house, in those years focus of Canadian folk music and not only knows Neil Young and Leonard Cohen, is still unknown and as you are looking for luck.
year after giving birth a child who will be forced to put out for adoption, and met Chuck Mitchell with whom he formed a folk duo.
moved to Detoit and finally starts to work playing in clubs in the city in 1966 and participates at the Newport Folk Festival where he won a resounding success.
year after it separates from Chuck and moved to New York to begin a solo career.
arrives national affirmation as a writer, George Hamilton V affects its Urge For Going to become a hit. Other
folk singers ask her songs, which are engraved with success, of all Judy Collins. In 68
know David Crosby, who convinces the Reprise Records Joni to entrust the execution of an entirely acoustic album.
The album Song To A Seagull released the same year and became a success, its impact Judy Collins Both Sides Now it becomes a hit.
year after leaving Clouds where he reclaims songs already recorded by others, such as Now and Chelsea Morning.
He moved to Los Angeles with Graham Nash and writes Woodstock, a song that becomes a real symbol of the hippie movement (although he had not participated in the famous concert). In 70 out
Ladies Of The Canyon with whom he won his first gold record, with famous songs like Big Yellow Taxi and The Circle Game.
year after leaving Blue, where the artist goes hippie icon with the image of a very intimate album more in keeping with his being an artist.
In For The Roses 72 with his music takes different sounds, from folk to go out in a more pop and rock. In 1974 he released
Court and Spark, which are very beautiful album features the single Raised On Robbery and Help Me
After a few albums that were not accepted very well, where Joni is looking for a music that matched exactly to its text, released in 1976 where Hejra begins to work with the jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius.
In 77 out Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, a wonderful album where the mark is accentuated and where he participated in jazz as well as Jaco, drummer Don Alias, saxophonist Wayne Shorter. An album to listen to one where all the excellent song "Paprika Plains.
In 1978, jazz great Charles Mingus and the contact sent him to 6 tracks
Joni on which to write the lyrics, but after a year of collaboration Mingus died without seeing the finished album.
In 1979, Mingus released, an album that has a complex and difficult had undergone a commercial success, the only album not to have sold at least 500,000 copies. In 1982, out
Wild Things Run Fast, a very cool and catchy album with the single You're So Square (Baby I Do not Care) cover of Elvis Presley.
in 1985 with the album Dog Eat Dog began experimenting with electronics in collaboration with Dolby on synthesizer, but the album is a flop.
released in 1988 Chalk Mark in a Rainstorm In addition, where the use of electronics in collaboration with Peter Gabriel, this time is a good success with audiences and critics and the single My Secret Place, a duet with Gabriel, he gets a good number of radio broadcasting.
In 1991 comes out, always with the help of her husband, bassist and sound engineer Larry Klein, a highly successful album Night Ride Home.
Joni returns to the acoustic guitar and it follows that the single Come In From The Cold becomes a hit.
In 1998 another great success with Taming The Tiger taming the tiger and refers to its difficult to deal with the music business, which has never accepted and which has always been the cause of his intentions to leave the music to devote himself painting.
were years of great success, personally, has a new relationship with the Canadian singer-songwriter Don Freed and locate her daughter Kilauren, abandoned early in his career and went up for adoption.
Taming The Tiger is in his last albun study, released in 2000 Both Sides Now, an orchestral recollections of jazz classics with two of his original compositions Both Sides Now and A Case Of You "
Travelogue in 2002 and 2007 Shine, both always key orchestral reworking his hit songs.
Great author and highly educated woman, was always looking for music that would fit in better with his lyrics, true poems are very beautiful and sought after.
woman of great success, one of the icons of music and modern culture.
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