Buffy Sainte-Marie

Buffy Sainte-Marie
Buffy Sainte-Marie ;
	Sainte-Marie in 2015
Background information
Birth name	Beverly Sainte-Marie
Born	February 20, 1941 (age 83); Piapot 75 Reserve, Saskatchewan, Canada
Genres	Folk; First Nations; indigenous; rock; country folk; electronic;
Occupation(s)	Musician; singer-songwriter; composer; record producer; visual artist; educator; social activist; actress; humanitarian;
Instruments	Vocals; guitar; mouthbow; piano; ukulele; autoharp; harmonica; percussion;
Years active	1963–present
Labels	Vanguard; Angel/EMI; Capitol/EMI; Island; MCA; Appleseed; Ensign/Chrysalis/EMI;
Associated acts	Pete Seeger, Leonard Cohen, Patrick Sky
Website	buffysainte-marie.com

Buffy Sainte-Marie, (born Beverly Sainte-Marie, February 20, 1941) is an Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter, musician, Oscar-winning composer, visual artist,^[2] educator, pacifist, and social activist. Her best known songs were "Universal Soldier", "Cod'ine", "Until It's Time for You to Go", "Now That the Buffalo's Gone", and her covers of Mickey Newbury's "Mister Can't You See" and Joni Mitchell's "The Circle Game".

Her song "Up Where We Belong" won both the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 55th Academy Awards^[3] and the Golden Globe for Best Original Song.

Buffy Sainte-Marie Media

Sainte-Marie performing in the Netherlands in the Grand Gala du Disque Populaire 1968
Photo of musician Buffy Sainte-Marie from her guest appearance on the television program Then Came Bronson.
Buffy Sainte-Marie playing the Peterborough Summer Festival of Lights on June 24, 2009
Sainte-Marie performing at The Iron Horse in Northampton, Massachusetts on June 15, 2013

↑ "Encyclopedia of the Great Plains | SAINTE-MARIE, BUFFY (b. 1941)". Plainshumanities.unl.edu. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
↑ More than 26.5 million copies sold world-wide as per Buffy Saint-Marie biography/profile Archived May 31, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
↑ ""An Officer and a Gentleman" (NY)". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. September 16, 2014. Retrieved 4 Nov 2019. Academy Award winner: Music – Original Song ("Up Where We Belong", Music by Jack Nitzsche, Buffy Sainte-Marie; Lyrics by Will Jennings)