Joan Baez is one of the most influential folk singers, but also recorded pop, rock, and gospel music as well. Originally growing up in Staten Island, NY, her father began to work at MIT in Massachusetts, where Baez began performing in clubs with small audiences, and was only paid twenty-five dollars a week. Baez met Bob Gibson who she performed with at the Newport Folk Concert in 1959. The two of them sang a duet of “Virgin Mary Had One Son”. Soon after that performance, Joan signed with Vanguard, and recorded her first self-titled album, Joan Baez. That album was completed within four days, and had the single “El Preso Numero Nueve”. In the 60’s Baez also began recording and performing with Bob Dylan, and ended up having a romantic relationship
