After World War II ended, her father worked as a grocer and her family moved to Saskatchewan, living in Maidstone and North Battleford. She later moved with her parents to various bases in western Canada. Her mother was a teacher, while her father was a Royal Canadian Air Force flight lieutenant who instructed new pilots at RCAF Station Fort Macleod. Her mother's ancestors were Scottish and Irish her father was from a Norwegian family that possibly had some Sámi ancestry. Mitchell was born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943, in Fort Macleod, Alberta, the daughter of Myrtle Marguerite (née McKee) and William Andrew Anderson. Life and career 1943–1963: Early life and education She performed live for the first time in 9 years, with an unannounced appearance at the June 2022 Newport Folk Festival, and is scheduled to perform a headline show on June 10, 2023. She returned to public appearances in 2021, accepting several awards in person, including a Kennedy Center Honor in 2021. A series of retrospective compilations were released over the time period, culminating in the Joni Mitchell Archives, a project to publish much of Joni's unreleased material from her long career. She would give occasional interviews and make appearances to speak on various causes over the next two decades, though the rupture of a brain aneurysm in 2015 led to a long period of recovery and therapy. A critic of the music industry, she quit touring and released her 17th and last album of original songs in 2007. Mitchell produced or co-produced most of her albums and designed most of her own album covers, describing herself as a "painter derailed by circumstance". She was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 44th Annual Grammy Awards in 2002. She later turned to pop and electronic music and engaged in political protest. Starting in the mid-1970s, she began working with noted jazz musicians including Jaco Pastorius, Tom Scott, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Pat Metheny as well as Charles Mingus, who asked her to collaborate on his final recordings. Her distinctive piano and open-tuned guitar compositions also grew more harmonically and rhythmically complex as she melded jazz with rock and roll, R&B, classical music and non-Western beats. Mitchell's vocal range began to shift from mezzo-soprano to that of a wide-ranging contralto around 1975. ![]() ![]() Mitchell began exploring more jazz-influenced ideas on 1974's Court and Spark, which featured the radio hits " Help Me" and " Free Man in Paris" and became her best-selling album. NPR ranked Blue number 1 on a 2017 list of Greatest Albums Made By Women. In 2000, The New York Times chose Blue as one of the 25 albums that represented "turning points and pinnacles in 20th-century popular music". Her 1971 album Blue is often cited as one of the best albums of all time it was rated the 30th best album ever made in Rolling Stone 's 2003 list of the " 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", rising to number 3 in the 2020 edition. Settling in Southern California, Mitchell helped define an era and a generation with popular songs like " Big Yellow Taxi" and " Woodstock". Some of her original songs ("Urge for Going", " Chelsea Morning", " Both Sides, Now", " The Circle Game") were recorded by other folk singers, allowing her to sign with Reprise Records and record her debut album, Song to a Seagull, in 1968. She moved to the United States and began touring in 1965. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in Saskatoon and throughout western Canada, before moving on to the nightclubs of Toronto. Rolling Stone called her "one of the greatest songwriters ever", and AllMusic has stated, "When the dust settles, Joni Mitchell may stand as the most important and influential female recording artist of the late 20th century". She has received many accolades, including ten Grammy Awards and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. As one of the most influential singer-songwriters to emerge from the 1960s folk music circuit, Mitchell became known for her starkly personal lyrics and unconventional compositions which grew to incorporate pop and jazz elements. ![]() Roberta Joan " Joni" Mitchell CC (née Anderson born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian-American musician, producer, and painter.
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