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Joan Baez was born in 1941 to a Mexican father and a Scottish-Irish mother. His father was a nuclear physicist, and so he often received offers from defense contractors, but he refused them all because he knew the terrible power of the atomic bomb. Joan Baez's father, as the head of a well-off family, considered 'humanity over money' to be more important, and it can be said that his philanthropic spirit was completely inherited and passed on to his daughter. When his daughter started music, she decided from the beginning to do folk music with a popular, anti-commercial character. The music she listened to at home was Bach, Vivaldi, and Mozart, and when she was in high school, she sang in the school choir, so she had a rather 'classical' vibe, but Joan Baez said that deep inside her was acoustic guitar music. Just before graduation, he bought a Sears Roebuck guitar with his own pocketbook. Although he entered Boston University's theater department under his mother's influence, he had no interest in studying and hung around the teahouses around Harvard Square, the temple of folk music. That's why, if you look at Joan Baez's early lyrics, you can see the word "poverty" appearing countless times, as befitting a teacher of the weak. As I mentioned earlier, Joan Baez moved to Boston in the late 1950s and rose to stardom while performing in the Harvard Square area. Eventually, she appeared at the Newport Folk Festival in 1959 and left a strong impression on the minds of 13,000 people. Robert Shelton, a reporter for the New York Times, was among the audience at the time, and after hearing Joan Baez sing, he wrote an article saying, "A star is born." Shelton described her as "a young soprano with a thrillingly rich vibrato and passionate, well-controlled delivery." She did not hesitate to go anywhere for anti-war and racial equality, actively participating in all forms of 'resistance' such as sit-ins, freedom rides, demonstrations, and marches, and such things took the place of her tours and were also the contents of her tours. From the government's perspective, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan must have been troublemakers and problem makers. Here, you must be quite curious about the relationship between Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. Joan Baez is widely known to us for her romance with Bob Dylan, but in fact, she truly loved Dylan, and Bob Dylan indirectly expressed his affection by writing songs like 'Vision of Johanna' modeled after her.