Buffy Sainte-Marie
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...Strangest Dream", the first to spell out that anti-Vietnam songs have a particular resonance now, a message Bragg rams home with Buffy Sainte-Marie's "Universal Soldier". Judy Collins is the last act, and, with her Nashville sequins and big...
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...followed her musical aspirations to New York's Greenwich Village where a scruffy young guy named Bob Dylan suggested some places for her to play. In retrospect, Sainte-Marie was more dimensional and pioneering than anyone realized at the...
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...ancestry (Creek Indian, Sky was raised near the Lafouche Swamps of Louisiana). A contemporary of Bob Dylan and others in the Greenwich Village folk boom of the 1960s, following military service Sky released a number of well received...
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...Neil Young. She quickly earned a reputation as a gifted songwriter, and many of her earliest songs were covered, and often turned into chart-topping hits, by other artists including Chet Atkins, Janis Joplin and Taj Mahal . One of her most...
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Buffy Sainte-Marie (born Beverly Sainte-Marie, February 20, 1941 or this date in 1942) is an Academy Award-winning Canadian First Nations musician, composer, visual artist, pacifist, educator and social activist. ==Personal life==
Buffy Sainte-Marie was born February 20, 1941 on the Piapot Cree Indian reserve in the Qu'Appelle valley, Saskatchewan, Canada. She was orphaned and later adopted and grew up in Maine and with parents Albert and Winifred Sainte-Marie who were related to her biological parents. From the University of Massachusetts Amherst she holds degrees in teaching and Oriental Philosophy graduating in the top ten of her class and went on to earn a Ph.D. in Fine Arts. In 1964 on a return trip to the Piapot Cree reserve in Canada for a Powwow she was welcomed and (in a Cree nation context) adopted by the youngest son of Chief Piapot, Imu Piapot and his wife who added to Sainte-Marie's cultural value of, and place in, First Nations culture.
In 1968 she married surfing teacher Dewain Bugbee of Hawaii. They divorced in 1971. She married Sheldon Wolfchild from Minnesota in 1975, and they have a son, Dakota "Cody" Starblanket Wolfchild. She married Jack Nitzsche in the early 1980s. Sainte-Marie has been in a committed relationship with Hawaiian Chuck Wilson since 1993, ("A blond boy raised in a tan community" as Sainte-Marie says). She currently lives on Kauai.
In 1996 she received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Regina in Canada. In 2007 she received an honorary Doctor of Letters from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. On 13 June 2008, she received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada Honorary Doctor of Music from The University of Western Ontario on June 10, 2009 in London, Ontario, Canada.
- Name At Birth:
- Beverly Sainte-Marie
- Occupation:
- Singer-Songwriter, Record Producer, Visual Artist, Educator, Social Activist
- Instrument Played:
- Guitar, Vocals, Mouthbow
- Record Label:
- Vanguard Records, Angel Records, Capitol, Island,
- Years Active:
- 1960–present
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