Mark Zuckerberg
Mobsters
Icons of the Wild West
Robin Gibb
My Ghost Story
Mobsters
Robert Downey Jr
Margaret Thatcher
Marilyn Monroe
I Survived
2 photos
Quick Facts
- NAME: Joni Mitchell
- OCCUPATION: Songwriter, Singer
- BIRTH DATE: November 07, 1943 (Age: 68)
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Mcleod, Canada
- Originally: Roberta Joan Anderson
- ZODIAC SIGN: Scorpio
Best Known For
Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, responsible for hits such as "Both Sides Now" and "Big Yellow Taxi," is widely considered 1960s and 1970s folk royalty.
Joni Mitchell. (2012). Biography.com. Retrieved 01:25, May 23, 2012 from http://www.biography.com/people/joni-mitchell-9410294
Joni Mitchell [Internet]. 2012. http://www.biography.com/people/joni-mitchell-9410294, May 23
" Joni Mitchell." 2012. Biography.com 23 May 2012, 01:25 http://www.biography.com/people/joni-mitchell-9410294
' Joni Mitchell', Biography.com,(2012) http://www.biography.com/people/joni-mitchell-9410294 [accessed May 23, 2012]
" Joni Mitchell," Biography.com, http://www.biography.com/people/joni-mitchell-9410294 (accessed May 23, 2012).
Joni Mitchell [Internet]. Biography.com; 2012 [cited 2012 May 23]. Available from: http://www.biography.com/people/joni-mitchell-9410294.
Joni Mitchell, http://www.biography.com/people/joni-mitchell-9410294 (last visited May 23, 2012).
Joni Mitchell, http://www.biography.com/people/joni-mitchell-9410294 (last visited May 23, 2012).
Synopsis
Joni Mitchell was born November 7, 1943, in Fort Mcleod, Canada. In 1968 she recorded her first album, Joni Mitchell. Other highly successful albums followed. she won her first Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance for Clouds (1969). She has won more four Grammy Awards since then in several different categories, including traditional pop and pop music.
Profile
Singer and songwriter. Born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943, in Fort Mcleod, Alberta, Canada. Joni Mitchell is a singer-songwriter who emerged as one of the leading folk performers of the late 1960s and 1970s. At the beginning of her career, her compositions were highly original and personal in their lyrical imagery. It was this style that first attracted attention among folk-music audiences in Toronto while she was still in her teens. She moved to the United States in the mid-1960s. In 1968 recorded her first album, Joni Mitchell (1968), which was produced by David Crosby.
Other highly successful albums followed. Joni Mitchell won her first Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance for Clouds (1969). Over the past four decades, Mitchell has won seven more Grammy Awards in several different categories, including traditional pop, pop music, and a Grammy for Lifetime Achievement in 2002. Other successful recordings by Mitchell include Ladies of the Canyon (1970) and Blue (1971). She wasn’t the only one making hits with the songs she wrote. Many other musicians have recorded her songs, including Judy Collins, the Counting Crows, and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.
Later Joni Mitchell albums include Taming the Tiger (1998) and Both Sides Now (2000) as well as several compilations—Dreamland (2004) and Songs of a Prairie Girl (2005). In addition to her own extensive body of work, Joni Mitchell has been an enormous influence on many artists with her unique guitar styling and expressive lyrics. She was inducted in the Rock and Rock Hall of Fame in 1997 and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2007.
© 2012 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
profile name: Joni Mitchell profile occupation:
Your Connections
Sign in with Facebook to see how you and your friends are connected to famous icons.
Profile Connections
Included In These Groups
-
Influential Female Musicians of the 1960s
View groupAmerican society experienced a revolution in the late 1960s and early 70s, especially for African-Americans and women. Janis Joplin was the finest white blues singer of her generation; female singer-songwriters like Carole King and Joni Mitchell shared their innermost thoughts and feelings; Aretha Franklin emerged as the Queen of Soul; and Bonnie Raitt established herself as both a strong vocalist and a brilliant guitarist. Through their music, the women of this era created the soundtrack of social progress.
Influential Female Musicians of the 1960s 17 people in this group
-
Name Changers
View groupIn entertainment, where the line between fiction and reality is often blurry, names are a crucial part of a celebrity's image. Stage names are often chosen to make an actor or musician's name easier to pronounce or remember, or simply to make it sounds more attractive. Here are famous celebrities who have changed their names.
Name Changers 235 people in this group
-
Famous Scorpios 448 people in this group
