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Here’s a look at the life of the singer, songwriter and painter Joni Mitchell.
date of birth: November 7, 1943
birth place: Fort McLeod, Alberta, Canada
birth name: Roberta Joan Anderson
Father: William “Bill” Anderson, Air Force officer and groceries
Mother: Myrtle (Mackey) Anderson, teacher
Weddings: Larry Klein, (1982–1994, divorced); Chuck Mitchell (1965–1967, divorced)
children: With Brad McMath: Kelly Dale Anderson (renamed Kylauren Gibb), 1965
Education: Attended Alberta College of Art in Calgary 1963-1964
Taught himself to play guitar, ukulele and dulcimer.
She is known for her difficult musical compositions, alternate guitar tunings and unusual chord changes.
Nominated for 16 Grammy Awards and won eight, plus received a lifetime achievement award.
Although one of her more popular songs is called “Woodstock”, she was not present at the famous 1969 concert.
His own portraits and portraits have been featured on some of his own album covers as well as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.
contracted polio at the age of 9.
March 1968 – Their debut album, “Song for a Seagull”, has been released. The album is also known as “Joni Mitchell”.
11 March 1970 – Won a Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance or Recording for “Clouds”.
March 1, 1975 – “Down to You” won the Grammy Award for Best Arrangement with Vocalist.
1977 – TS begins a collaboration with jazz musician Charlie Mingus on his interpretation of Eliot’s “Four Quartets”. Mingus dies of Lou Gehrig’s illness before the project is completed, but Mitchell finishes the album. ‘Mingus’ was released in 1979.
February 28, 1996 – Won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Album, as well as the Grammy for Best Recording Package with “Turbulent Indigo”.
March 1997 – Michelle and the daughter she left for adoption, now known as Kylauren Gibb, have reunited after 32 years apart.
May 1997 – Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
21 February 2001- “Both Sides Now” won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album.
2002 – Receives Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
2007 – Composes the music for “The Fiddle and the Drum” with Alberta Ballet.
25 September 2007 – released his last studio album, “Shine”.
February 10, 2008 – Won a Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental Performance for “One Week Last Summer” and another Grammy for her contribution to Herbie Hancock’s Album of the Year winner, “River: The Joanie Letters”.
April 22, 2010 – one in Los Angeles Times article, Mitchell describes suffering from a “strange, incurable disease” called Morgellons, She describes the symptoms as “fibres in various colors pop out of my skin like mushrooms after a thunderstorm: they cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable, or mineral.”
2010 – Mitchell’s song, “Both Sides Now,” is featured at the opening ceremony. Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.
31 March 2015 – Michelle has been hospitalized after being found unconscious at her Los Angeles home.
June 2015 – A mentor to Michelle has issued a statement saying the musician suffered a brain aneurysm but is expected to make a full recovery.
February 15, 2016 – “Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting to Be Dance” won a Grammy for Best Album Notes.
August 20, 2016 – Attends a Chick Korea concert in Los Angeles; This is the first time he has been seen in public since a brain aneurysm.
October 10, 2017 – David Yaffe’s biography “Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell”, is published a week later in Canada and the United States. The book is based on personal interviews with Michelle, as well as her childhood friends and famous peers, which inspired many of her most famous songs.
November 6-7, 2018 – Artists gather at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles to celebrate Michelle’s 75th birthday. The lineup includes Emmylo Harris, Kris Kristofferson, Graham Nash, James Taylor, Rufus Wainwright and Brandi Carlyle.
February 7, 2019 – “The Music Center Presents Johnny 75: A Birthday Celebration” is shown for one night at the movie theater. The special includes the entire concert schedule as well as behind-the-scenes interviews with the cast.
October 30, 2020 , “Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963–1967),” a collection of Mitchell’s early recordings, is released.
November 12, 2021 – “Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 2: The Reprise Years (1968–1971)” is released.
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