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  • NAME: Joni Mitchell
  • OCCUPATION: Songwriter, Singer
  • BIRTH DATE: November 07, 1943 (Age: 68)
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Mcleod, Canada
  • Originally: Roberta Joan Anderson
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Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, responsible for hits such as "Both Sides Now" and "Big Yellow Taxi," is widely considered 1960s and 1970s folk royalty.


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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.

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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.

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