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Buffy Sainte-Marie

バフィ・セント＝マリー　/　ばふぃ・せんと＝まりー

American actor

February 20, 1941 (age 85)　・　Stoneham, Massachusetts, United States

Massachusetts
actor
singer-songwriter
visual artist

My Take

Buffy Sainte-Marie matters to me as proof that a songwriter can be both an artist and an argument. For six decades she has folded love, war, religion, and the realities facing Indigenous communities into music that never feels like a lecture, and the 1983 Academy Award showed she could conquer the mainstream on her own terms. What I admire most is her refusal to specialize: singer, composer, visual artist, activist, all running on the same restless current. Few performers have kept their convictions and their creativity in sync for so long, and her catalogue still sounds urgent rather than historical. That endurance is the real award.

Overview

Buffy Sainte-Marie (born Beverley Jean Santamaria; February 20, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and social activist. Sainte-Marie's singing and writing repertoire includes subjects of love, war, religion, and mysticism, and her work has often focused on issues facing Indigenous peoples of the United States and Canada.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Buffy Sainte-Marie
Name (Japanese): バフィ・セント＝マリー
Reading: ばふぃ・せんと＝まりー
Born: February 20, 1941 (age 85)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Pisces / Snake
Origin: Stoneham, Massachusetts, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: actor / singer-songwriter / visual artist / record producer / composer

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: University of Massachusetts Amherst

Awards & achievements

1997 Officer of the Order of Canada
2010 Governor General's Performing Arts Award
1983 Academy Award for Best Original Song
1983 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song
1984 BAFTA Award for Best Original Song
1995 Canadian Music Hall of Fame
1997 Juno Award for Indigenous Artist or Group of the Year
2009 Juno Award for Indigenous Artist or Group of the Year

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Official sitehttps://buffysainte-marie.com/
Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/buffystemarie/
Xhttps://x.com/BuffySteMarie
Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy%20Sainte-Marie

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