Warner Andrea - Buffy Sainte - Marie The Authorized Biography - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: " Buffy Sainte - Marie is an icon and inspiration. This book is necessary an authorized insight into the making of a legend." Terese Marie Mailhot author of Heart Berries A powerful intimate look at the life of a beloved folk icon and activist. Folk hero. Songwriter icon. Living legend. Buffy Sainte - Marie is all of these things and more. In this Sainte - Marie's first and only authorized biography music critic Andrea Warner draws from more than sixty hours of exclusive interviews to offer a powerful intimate look at the life of the beloved artist and everything that she has accomplished in her seventy - seven years (and counting). Since her groundbreaking debut 1964's It's My Way! the Cree singer - songwriter has been a trailblazer and a tireless advocate for Indigenous rights and freedoms an innovative artist and a disruptor of the status quo. Establishing herself among the ranks of folk greats such as Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan she has released more than twenty albums survived being blacklisted by two U. S. presidents and received countless accolades including the only Academy Award ever to be won by a First Nations artist. But this biography does more than celebrate Sainte - Marie's unparalleled talent as a songwriter and entertainer; packed with insight and knowledge it offers an unflinchingly honest heartbreakingly real portrait of the woman herself including the challenges she experienced on the periphery of showbiz her healing from the trauma of childhood and intimate partner violence her commitment to activism and her leadership in the protest movement.
Title: Buffy Sainte - Marie The Authorized Biography
Author(s): Warner Andrea
Publisher: Greystone Books Canada
Barcode: 9781771647298
Pages: 304 Pages, Black-And-White Photographs Throughout
Publication Date: 2/20/2021
Category: Biography: Arts & Entertainment