Buffy Sainte-Marie

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Buffy Sainte-Marie (2009)
Buffy Sainte-Marie's star on Canada's Walk of Fame

Buffy Sainte-Marie (born February 20, 1941 , according to her own statement in Sebago (Maine) or in Canada ; real first name: Beverly ) is a Canadian musician , composer , performing artist , teacher and social activist of Indian descent.

biography

Buffy Sainte-Marie was the daughter of the Cree - reserve in the valley of the Qu'Appelle River in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan born resident Cree Indians. She was later adopted by Micmac Indians and grew up in the US states of Maine and Massachusetts (especially in Wakefield).

Buffy Sainte-Marie studied Eastern Philosophy and Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst . She earned a PhD in Fine Arts , a Teaching Diploma and one in Eastern Philosophy.

In the 1960s she wrote the protest song Universal Soldier and the love song Until It's Time for You to Go .

Before Sainte-Marie began her singing career with her own compositions in New York's Gaslight Cafe in 1962, she played in amateur theater.

In some of her songs, such as the epic My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying , she drew attention to the injustice done to the Native Americans, which resulted in her being no longer played on many US broadcasters. Buffy's rendition of the song The Circle Game , written by Joni Mitchell , was used as theme music in the socially critical film Bloody Strawberries , which deals with the crackdown on student protests in the United States in the late 1960s. The title melody for the socially critical late western Soldier Blue from 1970 (German title: The lullaby of manslaughter ) also comes from her pen .

Sainte-Marie sings and plays the guitar. Her first three albums were folk oriented. The strong, fast, often accusatory vibrato of her voice and the use of the mouth arch are noticeable . In the late 1960s they used a Buchla - synthesizers for recording their album Illuminations , which sold though badly but later in the legendary Wire List, The Wire's "100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One What Listening)," added has been.

Buffy appeared regularly on the children's show Sesame Street between 1976 and 1981, introducing younger, mostly North American television viewers to the way of life of the Prairie and Pueblo Indians.

The song Up Where We Belong , sung by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes for the film An Officer and a Gentleman earned her an Oscar in 1982 . Buffy Sainte-Marie starred alongside Pierce Brosnan in the 1993 television movie The Broken Chain .

Her songs have been interpreted by numerous artists, including Chet Atkins , Cher , Neil Diamond , Donovan , Erasure , Janis Joplin , Kanye West , Phil Ochs , Elvis Presley , Taj Mahal , Eva Cassidy , Barbra Streisand , Evie Sands , First Aid Kit , Bettina Wegner and Nancy Sinatra .

Meanwhile, her digital art works are also exhibited, for example in the Glenbow Museum in Calgary and in the American Indian Arts Museum in Santa Fe .

Buffy Sainte-Marie was named Officer of the Order of Canada in 1998 and was honored with a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in 1999. Since 1996 she has received three honorary doctorates from Canadian universities. She was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1995 and the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 2009 . She now lives in Hawaii .

Discography

Albums

  • 1964: It's My Way!
  • 1965: Many a Mile
  • 1966: Little Wheel Spin and Spin
  • 1967: Fire & Fleet & Candlelight
  • 1968: I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again
  • 1969: Illuminations
  • 1971: She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina
  • 1972: Moonshot
  • 1973: Quiet Places
  • 1974: Buffy
  • 1975: Changing Woman
  • 1976: Sweet America
  • 1992: Coincidence and Likely Stories
  • 1996: Up Where We Belong
  • 2008: Running for the Drum
  • 2015: Power in the Blood
  • 2017: Medicine Songs

literature

Web links

Commons : Buffy Sainte-Marie  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Siegfried Schmidt-Joos, Barry Graves: Rock-Lexikon. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1973, 2nd edition 1975, reprint 1978, ISBN 349916177X , p. 306
  2. ↑ Buffy Sainte-Marie UK Biography , accessed June 2, 2019
  3. ↑ Entry at IMDb , accessed on June 2, 2019
  4. ^ Canadian Music Hall of Fame - Inductees. Canadian Music Hall of Fame , accessed August 6, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Sainte-Marie, Buffy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sainte-Marie, Beverly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian musician, composer, performing artist, teacher and social activist of Native American descent
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1941