jueves, 26 de enero de 2017

Depende de ti… / It depends on you…

“No puedes elegir cómo o cuándo has de morir. Lo único que sí puedes decidir es cómo vas a vivir.”

“You don’t get to choose how or when you die. You can only decide how you are going to live.”


Joan Báez (Staten Island, Nueva York, Estados Unidos, 9 de enero de 1941), es una cantante, compositora y activista estadounidense, cuya música folk contemporánea incluye a menudo canciones protesta o de justicia social. Es una de las mayores figuras de la canción protesta surgida en los años sesenta, al calor de la Guerra de Vietnam. Báez comenzó su carrera musical en 1960 y logró un éxito inmediato.

Joan Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician, and activist whose contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest or social justice. Baez has performed publicly for over 55 years, releasing over 30 albums. Fluent in Spanish and English, she has recorded songs in at least six other languages. She is regarded as a folk singer, although her music has diversified since the counterculture days of the 1960s and now encompasses everything from folk rock and pop to country and gospel music.