Buffy Sainte-Marie

Buffy Sainte -Marie ( born February 20, 1941 real first name: Beverly ) is a Canadian musician, composer, performing artist, teacher and social activist of Indian descent.

Biography

Her birth place is the Cree reserve in the Qu'Appelle valley of the River in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Later she was adopted and grew up in the U.S. states of Maine and Massachusetts.

Buffy Sainte -Marie holds a Ph.D. 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. In some of their 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 meant that she was not played by many U.S. radio stations. Buffy's interpretation of the written by Joni Mitchell song The Circle Game was used as the theme music in the socially critical film The Strawberry Statement, which deals with the suppression of student protests in the late 1960s in the United States. From their spring also comes the theme song to the controversial Western Soldier Blue 1970 ( inappropriate and misleading German Title: The Soldier Blue ).

Their first three albums were folk - oriented. Striking are the strong, fast, often accusing vibrato of her voice and the use of the mouth arc. In the late 1960s they used a Buchla synthesizer for the recording of their album Illuminations, which sold poorly.

Between 1976 and 1981, Buffy appeared regularly in the children's show Sesame Street, and gave younger, mainly North American, television viewers an idea of ​​the lifestyle of the Plains 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. On the side of Pierce Brosnan Buffy Sainte- Marie played with in the television film 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 and Nancy Sinatra.

Meanwhile, her digital art is on display, as in the Glenbow Museum in Calgary and the American Indian Arts Museum in Santa Fe.

Buffy Sainte -Marie was honored in 1998 with the Order of Canada in 1999 with a star on Canada 's Walk of Fame. Since 1996, she received three honorary doctorates from Canadian universities. In 2009, she was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame. She now lives in Hawaii. " Illuminations " was recorded in the legendary list Wire The Wire 's " 100 Records That Set The World On Fire (While No One Was Listening ) ".