JONI MITCHELL
Name: Joni Mitchell
Birth name: Roberta Joan Anderson
Born: 7 November 1943 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943) is a Canadian
musician, songwriter, and painter.
Mitchell's singing began in small nightclubs and busking on the streets of
Toronto and in her native Western Canada. She subsequently became associated
with the burgeoning folk music scene of the mid-1960s in New York City. Mitchell
achieved fame in the late 1960s and was considered a key part of the Southern
California folk rock scene. Throughout the 1970s, she explored and combined the
pop and jazz genres. Mitchell has amassed a body of work that is highly
respected by both critics and fellow musicians, with the influential All
Music Guide going as far as stating that, "When the dust settles, Joni Mitchell
may stand as the most important and influential female recording artist of the
late 20th century".
Mitchell is also an accomplished visual artist. She has, through photography or
painting, created the artwork for each of her albums and, in 2000, in an
interview with the Toronto Globe and Mail, described herself as a "painter
derailed by circumstance". A blunt critic of the music industry, Mitchell had
stopped recording over the last several years, focusing mainly on her visual art,
but in 2007 released Shine, her first album of new songs in nine years.
Name: Joni Mitchell
Birth name: Roberta Joan Anderson
Born: 7 November 1943 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943) is a Canadian
musician, songwriter, and painter.
Mitchell's singing began in small nightclubs and busking on the streets of
Toronto and in her native Western Canada. She subsequently became associated
with the burgeoning folk music scene of the mid-1960s in New York City. Mitchell
achieved fame in the late 1960s and was considered a key part of the Southern
California folk rock scene. Throughout the 1970s, she explored and combined the
pop and jazz genres. Mitchell has amassed a body of work that is highly
respected by both critics and fellow musicians, with the influential All
Music Guide going as far as stating that, "When the dust settles, Joni Mitchell
may stand as the most important and influential female recording artist of the
late 20th century".
Mitchell is also an accomplished visual artist. She has, through photography or
painting, created the artwork for each of her albums and, in 2000, in an
interview with the Toronto Globe and Mail, described herself as a "painter
derailed by circumstance". A blunt critic of the music industry, Mitchell had
stopped recording over the last several years, focusing mainly on her visual art,
but in 2007 released Shine, her first album of new songs in nine years.