Buffy Sainte-Marie

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Buffy Sainte-Marie
Buffy Ste. Marie - Truth and Reconciliation Commission Concert - Ottawa - 2015 (cropped).JPG
Sainte-Marie in 2015
Background information
Birth nameBeverly Jean Santamaria
Born20 February 1941 
     (aged 85)
[1]
Stoneham, Massachusetts, U.S.
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Musician
  • singer-songwriter
  • composer
  • record producer
  • visual artist
  • educator
  • social activist
  • actress
  • humanitarian
Instruments
  • Vocals, guitar, piano
Years active1963–2023
Labels
Associated actsPete Seeger, Leonard Cohen, Patrick Sky
Websitebuffysainte-marie.com

Buffy Sainte-Marie, (born Beverly Jean Santamaria; February 20, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and social activist.[2] Her best known songs were "Universal Soldier", "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.

  • Sainte-Marie playing the Peterborough Summer Festival of Lights on June 24, 2009

  • Sainte-Marie performing at The Iron Horse in Northampton, Massachusetts, June 2013

  • Copy of Sainte-Marie's birth certificate issued by the town of Stoneham, Massachusetts, U.S.

References

  1. ↑ Encyclopedia of the Great Plains | SAINTE-MARIE, BUFFY (b. 1941). Plainshumanities.unl.edu. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  2. ↑ More than 26.5 million copies sold world-wide as per Buffy Saint-Marie biography/profile Archived May 31, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ "An Officer and a Gentleman" (NY). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (September 16, 2014). Retrieved November 4, 2019.
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