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Joan Chandos Baez (, Spanish: [ˈbaes]; born January 9, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and activist. Her contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest and social justice. Baez has performed publicly for over 60 years, releasing more than 30 albums.

Baez is generally regarded as a folk singer, but her music has diversified since the counterculture era of the 1960s and encompasses genres such as folk rock, pop, country, and gospel music. She began her recording career in 1960 and achieved immediate success. Her first three albums, Joan Baez, Joan Baez, Vol. 2 and Joan Baez in Concert, all achieved gold record status. Although a songwriter herself, Baez generally interprets others' work, having recorded many traditional songs and songs written by the Allman Brothers Band, the Beatles, Jackson Browne, Leonard Cohen, Woody Guthrie, Violeta Parra, the Rolling Stones, Pete Seeger, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley, and many others. She was one of the first major artists to record songs by Bob Dylan in the early 1960s; Baez was already an internationally celebrated artist and did much to popularize his early songwriting efforts. Her tumultuous relationship with Dylan later became the subject of songs by each of them and generated much public speculation. On her later albums she has found success interpreting the work of more recent songwriters, including Ryan Adams, Josh Ritter, Steve Earle, Natalie Merchant, and Joe Henry.

Baez's songs include "Diamonds & Rust" and covers of Phil Ochs's "There but for Fortune" and the Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". She also recorded "Farewell, Angelina", "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word", "Forever Young", "Here's to You", "Joe Hill", "Sweet Sir Galahad" and "We Shall Overcome". Baez performed fourteen songs at the 1969 Woodstock Festival and has displayed a lifelong commitment to political and social activism in the fields of nonviolence, civil rights, human rights, and the environment. Baez was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 7, 2017.

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Bob Dylan (* 24. Mai 1941 als Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota) ist ein US-amerikanischer Singer-Songwriter und Lyriker. Er spielt Gitarre, Mundharmonika, Orgel und Klavier. Nach ersten Erfolgen mit Folk wandte er sich Mitte der 1960er Jahre der Rockmusik zu, schöpfte aber im Laufe seiner Karriere auch aus anderen Musiktraditionen wie Country, Blues, Gospel und dem Great American Songbook. Er gilt als einer der einflussreichsten Musiker des 20. Jahrhunderts.

Dylans Texte im Verbund mit der musikalischen Darbietung und Aufführungspraxis zeichnen sich durch vielschichtige Bezugsebenen aus, in denen Hoch- und Populärkultur aufeinandertreffen. 2016 erhielt er „für seine poetischen Neuschöpfungen in der großen amerikanischen Songtradition“ als erster Musiker den Nobelpreis für Literatur. Daneben betätigt er sich auch als Zeichner, Maler und Bildhauer.

In sein Werk eingewoben sind Reverenzen auf zahlreiche Personen der amerikanischen und europäischen Musik- und Literaturgeschichte, darunter Hank Williams, James Joyce, Woody Guthrie, Ovid, Merle Haggard, William Shakespeare, Jerry Lee Lewis, Arthur Rimbaud, John Lennon, Homer, Billy Joe Shaver, Petrarca oder Frank Sinatra. Sowohl das in der Kombination vielfältiger Traditionslinien sehr eigenständige, erfindungsreiche Werk Dylans als auch seine rätselhafte Persönlichkeit führten zu einer umfangreichen kulturellen und geisteswissenschaftlichen Rezeption.

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