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Joni Mitchell performs on stage at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970, playing acoustic guitar and singing into a microphone, wearing a yellow outfit and turquoise jewelry.
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Joni Mitchell

Canadian singer-songwriter
Also known as: Roberta Joan Anderson
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Author of She Bop II: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop, and Soul and Madonna: Like an Icon.
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Joni Mitchell (born November 7, 1943, Fort McLeod, Alberta, Canada) is a Canadian experimental singer-songwriter and one of the foremost folk music artists of the late 20th century. Her music reached its greatest popularity in the 1970s but has continued to be influential among 21st-century musicians. Once described as the “Yang to Bob Dylan’s Yin, equaling him in richness and profusion of imagery,” Mitchell, like her 1960s contemporary, turned pop music into an art form....

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