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Margarita Mimi Baez Fariña (April 30, 1945 – July 18, 2001) was an American singer-songwriter and activist, the youngest of three daughters of mother Joan Chandos Bridge and Mexican-American physicist Albert Baez.
Jul 20, 2001 · Mimi Fariña, a folk singer and founder of an organization that brought free live music to the sick and imprisoned, died on Wednesday at her home in Mill Valley, Calif. She was 56. The cause was...
Jul 20, 2001 · Folk singer and charitable activist Mimi Farina died at her home in California on July 18th after a two-year battle with cancer; she was fifty-six. Born Margarita Mimi Baez on April 30, 1945,...
Mimi Fariña (born April 30, 1945, Stanford, Calif., U.S.—died July 18, 2001, Mill Valley, Calif.) was an American folk singer and social activist who, with her first husband, Richard Fariña, helped revitalize folk music in the 1960s. She was the younger sister of folk singer Joan Baez.
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Oct 31, 2017 · Tom Jans & Mimi Farina - Take Heart (1971) (Full Album) (We don't own anything. Will remove on request) Highly underrated classic album from two major songwriters in the US Contemporary Folk ...
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Nov 22, 2021 · Learn about the life and legacy of Mimi Fariña, a folk artist and social activist who started Bread & Roses, a nonprofit that brings arts to isolated populations. Read about her early years, musical career, marriage, tragedy and retirement in Marin.
Feb 15, 2021 · The lost folk singer Mimi Fariña's career shows the story of the 'greatest decade' of the 20th century in a new light.
