(She also introduced Mitchell to Elliot Roberts, who became Joni's manager.) She spent a considerable amount of time in the coffeehouses of downtown Toronto's old Yorkville district, and New York City's Greenwich Village as part of the early to mid-1960s folk scene, often alongside other emerging Canadian contemporaries, such as Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, and Joni Mitchell. 1960sīy 1962, in her early twenties, she was touring alone, developing her craft and performing in various concert halls, folk music festivals and Native Americans reservations across the United States, Canada and abroad. In college some of her songs, "Ananias", the Indian lament, " Now That the Buffalo's Gone" and "Mayoo Sto Hoon" (in Hindi) were already in her repertoire. Sainte-Marie played piano and guitar, self-taught, in her childhood and teen years. … But that doesn't turn me against religion … Career … I have a huge religious faith or spiritual faith but I feel as though religion … is the first thing that racketeers exploit. I gave a lot of support to Bahá'í people in the '80s and '90s … Bahá'í people, as people of all religions, is something I'm attracted to … I don't belong to any religion. However, while she supports a universal sense of religion, she does not subscribe to any particular religion. She also appears in the 1985 video "Mona With The Children" by Douglas John Cameron. In the video documentary of the event Sainte-Marie is seen on the Dini Petty Show explaining the Bahá'í teaching of progressive revelation. In 1992, she appeared in the musical event prelude to the Bahá'í World Congress, a double concert "Live Unity: The Sound of the World" in 1992 with video broadcast and documentary. As of 2007, she lives in Hawaii.Īlthough not a Bahá'í herself, she became an active friend of the Bahá'í Faith by the mid-1970s when she is said to have appeared in the 1973 Third National Bahá'í Youth Conference at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and has continued to appear at concerts, conferences and conventions of that religion since then. He died from a heart attack on August 25, 2000. She married her co-writer for " Up Where We Belong," Jack Nitzsche, on March 19, 1982. She married Sheldon Wolfchild from Minnesota in 1975 they have a son, Dakota "Cody" Starblanket Wolfchild. In 1968, she married surfing teacher Dewain Bugbee of Hawaii they divorced in 1971. In 1964, on a return trip to the Piapot Cree reserve in Canada for a powwow she was welcomed and (in a Cree Nation context) adopted by the youngest son of Chief Piapot, Emile Piapot and his wife, who added to Sainte-Marie's cultural value of, and place in, native culture.
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