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Joni Mitchell is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and painter, born Roberta Joan Anderson on the 7th of November 1943 in Fort Macleod, Alberta. She emerged from the 1960s folk circuit and became known for personal lyrics and unconventional compositions that drew on folk, pop, jazz, and rock.
Joni Mitchell's 1971 album Blue is celebrated as her most confessional work and reached the top 20 of the Billboard chart and the British Top 3. Rolling Stone rated it the 30th best album ever in 2003 and number 3 in its 2020 edition, and NPR ranked it number 1 on a 2017 list of the greatest albums made by women.
Yes. Joni Mitchell gave birth to a daughter in February 1965 and placed her for adoption because she could not provide for her. The child, originally named Kelly Dale Anderson and later Kilauren Gibb, was reunited with Mitchell in 1997, and the secret had become public in 1993 through a tabloid story.
Joni Mitchell began exploring jazz on her 1974 album Court and Spark and deepened it through the mid-1970s. She worked with jazz musicians including Jaco Pastorius, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Pat Metheny, and collaborated with bandleader Charles Mingus, who died in 1979 before their project was finished.
Joni Mitchell suffered a brain aneurysm rupture in March 2015 that required physical therapy and daily rehabilitation. She later relearned to walk and, with help from the Joni Jam sessions at her home, gradually returned to singing and playing guitar.
Joni Mitchell returned to live performance on the 24th of July 2022 with an unannounced appearance at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island, her first public performance in nine years. She later headlined the Gorge Amphitheatre in 2023 before a capacity audience of 27,000, her first headline show in 23 years.
Joni Mitchell has received eleven Grammy Awards during her career, ten competitive and one honorary, with the first in 1969. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002.