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Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life: Directed by Joan Prowse. With Eric Andersen, Bill Cosby, Taj Mahal, Joni Mitchell. International Aboriginal spokesperson, medal recipient from Queen Elizabeth II, digital art pioneer with a Ph.D. in Fine Arts, singer/songwriter with seven albums and an Academy Award for the song Up Where We Belong - this ...
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- Documentary, Biography, War
- Joan Prowse
- 2006-11
4. Juli 2014 · This inspiring documentary film chronicles the remarkable story of Aboriginal artist Buffy Sainte-Marie as she rises to prominence in New York's Greenwich Village folk music scene and blazes a groundbreaking path as a talented songwriter, social activist, educator and artist.
Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life features interviews with Buffy’s friends and contemporaries including Joni Mitchell, Bill Cosby, Robbie Robertson (The Band), legendary blues musician Taj Mahal, and John Kay (Steppenwolf).
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE: A MULTIMEDIA LIFE. Media Coverage. Purchase DVD. This inspiring biography chronicles the remarkable story of Aboriginal artist Buffy Sainte-Marie as she rises to prominence in New York’s Greenwich Village folk music scene and blazes a groundbreaking path as a talented songwriter, activist, educator and artist.
- Early Life, Family and Birth Claims
- Recording Career, 1964–76
- Recording Sabbatical
- Blacklisting
- Film and Television Career
- Educator and Philanthropist
- Recording Career, 1992–2014
- Recording Career, 2015–Present
- Contested Indigenous Ancestry
- Honours and Awards
Throughout her career, Buffy Sainte-Marie has claimed that she has never known the exact circumstances of her birth. She has said that, after possibly being orphaned or taken from her birth family, she was adopted when she was a few months old. She was then raised in Massachusetts by Albert St. Marie and his wife, Winifred, who Buffy has claimed wa...
Buffy Sainte-Marie signed with Vanguard Records, which released It’s My Way! in 1964. The album included “Universal Soldier.” Sainte-Marie has said the song is “about individual responsibility for war and how the old feudal thinking kills us all.” Though not a hit for Sainte-Marie, it was a year later for British singer Donovan. The song was popula...
Following the release of Sweet America in 1976, Sainte-Marie took a 16-year sabbatical from recording to raise her son, Dakota Starblanket Wolfchild. She limited her work to scoring films, performing occasional concerts (such as with the Regina Symphony Orchestra under John Kim Bell), composing, and painting in her home studio in Hawaii, where she ...
Buffy Sainte-Marie’s strong stance on Indigenous issues and against the Vietnam War made her unpopular with the Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon administrations in the United States. As a result, her music was blacklisted from radio stations and held back from reaching a wider audience. Sainte-Marie only discovered this upon seeing her FBI files...
Though mostly known for her music, Buffy Sainte-Marie became involved in education and film and television in the late 1960s. When she appeared in a 1968 episode of the NBC TV series The Virginian, she insisted that Indigenous actors be cast in all the Indigenous parts. In 1969, she founded her Nihewan Foundation partly to overcome the stereotyping...
Buffy Sainte-Marie has dedicated much of her life to education. After graduating with honours in Oriental philosophy and education from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1970, she obtained an honorary doctorate in fine arts from the same school in 1983. She has taught music and digital art at the Saskatchewan Federated Indian College, Yor...
Buffy Sainte-Marie resumed her recording career in 1992 with the release of Coincidence and Likely Stories. It was the first album to be delivered digitally via the fledgling Internet. Recorded at her home in Hawaii, she sent it via dialup modem to the London studio of producer Chris Birkett (Sinéad O'Connor, Steve Earle, The Proclaimers), with who...
Buffy Sainte-Marie continued to record and tour well into her seventies. Her album Power in the Blood (2015), recorded on her Gypsy Boy label and distributed by True North Records, won the 2015 Polaris Music Prize as well as 2016 Juno Awards for Aboriginal Album and Contemporary Roots Album of the Year. Sainte-Marie was also featured on the single ...
An investigation conducted by CBC’s The Fifth Estate and broadcast on 27 October 2023 cast doubt on the veracity of Buffy Sainte-Marie’s claims to Indigenous ancestry. The Fifth Estatemanaged to locate Sainte-Marie’s birth certificate — which she has said for years did not exist — at the town hall in Stoneham, Massachusetts. It lists Beverly Jean S...
Juno Awards 1. Inductee, Canadian Music Hall of Fame(1995) 2. Best Music of Aboriginal Canada Recording (Up Where We Belong) (1997) 3. Aboriginal Recording of the Year (Running for the Drum) (2009) 4. Aboriginal Album of the Year (Power in the Blood) (2016) 5. Contemporary Roots Album of the Year (Power in the Blood) (2016) 6. Allan Waters Humanita...
This one-hour documentary chronicles her remarkable career as she rises to prominence in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene and blazes a groundbreaking path as an Aboriginal-rights advocate, digital artist and Oscar-winning songwriter.
Buffy Sainte-Marie is best known for her protest songs (Universal Soldier) and her love songs (Up Where We Belong). This one-hour documentary chronicles her remarkable career as she rises to prominence in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene and blazes a groundbreaking path as an Aboriginal-rights advocate, digital artist and Oscar ...
