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Her confessional lyrics and haunting voice have inspired artists from Taylor Swift to Madonna. But it was a tragic secret that gave this giant of 20th-century music her voice.
Lying in her hospital bed watching the blizzard outside pelt snowflakes against the window, Canadian art student Joni Anderson makes a decision that is to change her life. In despair, she decides to give up her newborn daughter for adoption. She's unmarried, just turned 21, has no job, no money and no roof over her head. This is the early Sixties and single motherhood is hugely stigmatized. In her mind, she has no choice. Little does she know that the aching despair and grief about what she is doing now will be a source of musical inspiration for the next five decades. The young mother would go on to become on of the most celebrated singer - songwriters of all time.
As Joni Mitchell celebrates her 70th birthday this month Hollywood is preparing to bring her
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Joni Mitchell Today: Folk Singer Performs at the Grammy Awards at Age 80
Prior to the Grammys, singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell was already a nine-time trophy winner. On February 4, the year-old graced the Grammy stage to collect the award for Best Folk Album, then again in a career first: as a performer during the ceremony. Alongside musician Brandi Carlile, Mitchell sang her hit song “Both Sides, Now.”
Mitchell has rarely performed in recent years. A brain aneurysm left her hospitalized for weeks, and she’s had to relearn to play guitar in addition to other basic motor functions, like walking. In a major feat along her recovery journey, Mitchell performed her first full-length concert in more than 20 years at the Newport människor Festival. Her surprise set resulted in the live album At Newport, which won this year’s folk album category.
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Grammy-winning folk singer Joni Mitchell is best known for the songs “Both Sides,
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Joni Mitchell's songs, frequently confessional, sometimes obscure, always literate and musically adventurous, form one of the most striking bodies of work in the popular music of the last three decades.
She was born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, in Fort Macleod, Alberta in Canada. Her mother taught school and her father was a grocer. While she was still very young, the family moved to North Battlefored, Saskatchewan. At the age of seven years old, she convinced her parents to let her take piano lessons, but after a year and a half the lessons came to an end. At the time, her most important creative outlet was art, not music. When she was nine years old, her family moved igen, this time to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. These were the years of terrible polio epidemics, and Joan was one of that disease's victims. She was one of the lucky ones, though--after a stay in the hospital, she succeeded in getting back the use of her legs.
When she was twelve, she