Barbara Dane · Spotify · Courtesy of Spotify
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- This Bell Still Rings
- Doing More with Less
- The Vietnam songbook
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- Listeners
- 43,706
- Total plays
- 307,304
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folkbluessinger-songwriterfemale vocalistspolitical
Barbara Dane (born Barbara Jean Spillman in in Detroit, MI, on 12 May 1927; died 20 October 2024) was an American folk, blues, and jazz singer, guitarist, record producer, and political activist. She co-founded Paredon Records with Irwin Silber. Born into a white middle-class family, as a child Dane sang and played piano in Sunday school and also learned to play guitar. Right out of high school, she began to raise her strong voice regularly at demonstrations for racial equality and economic j
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Barbara
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Detroit
- Place of death
- Oakland
- Spouse
- Irwin Silber
- Occupation
- singer
- Genre
- blues
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.barbaradane.net/Home.html
- Image
- Barbara Dane - Southern Campus 1960.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1927-05-12
- Commons category
- Barbara Dane
- name in native language
- Barbara Dane
- start of work period
- 1957-00-00
- date of death
- 2024-10-20
- end of work period
- 2024-00-00
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