No one could ever accuse Academy-Award winning BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE OF
TAKING IT EASY. Since her ground-breaking debut album It’s My Way in
’64 she has continued to tour and disrupt the status quo, and thanks
to Bluesfest Touring she’s playing at Tanks.Sainte-Marie has spent
her whole life creating. Her artistry, humanitarian efforts, and
Indigenous leadership have made her a unique force in the music
industry.
In 1969, she made one of the world’s first electronic vocal albums;
in 1982 she became the only Indigenous person to win an Oscar; she
spent five years on Sesame Street where she became the first woman to
breastfeed on national television. She’s been blacklisted and
silenced. She’s written pop standards sung and recorded by the likes
of Janis Joplin, Elvis Presley, Donovan, Joe Cocker and Jennifer
Warnes. She penned Universal Soldier, the definitive anti-war anthem
of the 20th century. She is an icon who keeps one foot firmly planted
on both sides of the North American border, in the unsurrendered
territories that comprise Canada and the USA.
In our current climate of damaging #fakenews and toxic hubris, Buffy
Sainte-Marie’s incisive honesty, clarity, and intelligent compassion
stand out in sharp relief. There is still work to be done, and Buffy
is not taking her foot off the pedal.
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