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Joni Mitchell

Also known as Roberta Joan Anderson, Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell

Canadian musician

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Joni Mitchell is a Canadian musician known for her influential songwriting and distinctive voice. She matters because her innovative approach to music and lyrics significantly shaped popular and folk music from the 1960s onward.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 07 November 1943
Works: 25

Top works

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold
American Earth
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
Circle Game
Joni Mitchell

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Female
Origin: Canada
Active from: 1943-11-07

2008 universal fire victimcomposercontemporary folkfamousfemale vocalsfolk

Discography

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners: 1,745,739
Total plays: 57,695,082

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 22,931x
The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis
· 1988 · cited 15,767x
Integrative genomics viewer
· 2011 · cited 14,553x
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,814x
The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,178x

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Quotes

“I need to explore and discover and so that has given me, really, to some what seems like courage, but really it's just in my stars, there's nothing I can do about it . . . . I guess I'll just take my award and run now.”
“I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshipped or spat out.”
“Any time I make a record it's followed by a painting period. It's good crop rotation.”
“I was demanding of myself a deeper and greater honesty, more and more revelation in my work in order to give it back to the people where it goes into their lives and nourishes them and changes their direction and makes light bulbs go off in their head and makes them feel. And it isn't vague, it strikes against the very nerves of their life and in order to do that you have to strike against the very nerves of your own.”
“There's been a tremendous amount of growth. An actress is not expected to continue to play her ingenue roles, you know, I've written myself roles to grow into gracefully, but there is no growing into gracefully in the pop world. Basically the reason I'm so unruly in this business is because I never wanted to be a human jukebox.”
“In our possessive coupling So much could not be expressed So now I'm returning to myself These things that you and I suppressed.”

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Official website: www.jonimitchell.com
Image: Joni Mitchell 2021 Kennedy Center Honors (cropped).jpg
Height: 1.68

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Commons category: Joni Mitchell
date of birth: 1943-11-07
birth name: Roberta Joan Anderson
name in native language: Joni Mitchell
start of work period: 1967-00-00
social media followers: 53100

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Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell (née Anderson; born 7 November 1943) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and painter. As one of the most influential singer-songwriters to emerge from the 1960s folk music circuit, Mitchell became known for her personal lyrics and unconventional compositions, which grew to incorporate elements of pop, jazz, rock, and other genres. Among her accolades are eleven Grammy Awards, and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. Rolling Stone, in 2002, named her "one of the greatest songwriters ever", and AllMusic, in a 2011 biography, stated "Joni Mitchell may stand as the most important and influential female recording artist of the late 20th century."

Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in Saskatoon and throughout western Canada, before moving on to the nightclubs of Toronto. She moved to the United States and began touring in 1965. Some of her original songs ("Urge for Going", "Chelsea Morning", "Both Sides, Now", "The Circle Game") were first recorded by other singers, allowing her to sign with Reprise Records and record her debut album, Song to a Seagull, in 1968. Settling in Southern California, Mitchell helped define an era and a generation with popular songs such as "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Woodstock" (both 1970). Her 1971 album Blue is often cited as one of the greatest albums of all time; it was rated the 30th best album ever made in Rolling Stone's 2003 list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time", rising to number 3 in the 2020 edition. In 2000, The New York Times chose Blue as one of the 25 albums that represented "turning points and pinnacles in 20th-century popular music". NPR ranked Blue number 1 on a 2017 list of the "Greatest Albums Made By Women".