- Played a significant role in the Live Aid (1985) concert opening the US segment of the show in Philadelphia (13 July 1985).
- Once lived next door to Hunter S. Thompson.
- Her son Gabriel Harris makes musical instruments.
- Has recorded songs in eight languages.
- Unsuccessfully sued cartoonist Al Capp for libel after parodying her as "Joanie Phoanie" in his comic strip "Li'l Abner" in 1966.
- Built a treehouse in a tall oak tree behind her home.
- Hunter S. Thompson once corresponded with her. His nickname for her was "Joanie".
- Lives with her ninety year old mother in a home Woodside, California. (March 2004)
- Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2017.
- Ranked #27 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll
- Strong supporter of the Civil Rights and the anti-war movement in the 1960s and 1970s. During Christmas of 1972, she joined a peace delegation traveling to North Vietnam.
- Close friend of Kris Kristofferson.
- Was six months pregnant with her son Gabriel Harris when she performed at Woodstock.
- Longtime companion of Bob Dylan from 1962 to 1965.
- From the age of eighteen into her forties, she sought therapy to handle her intense stage fright.
- Sister of Mimi Fariña.
- Father, Albert Vinicio Baez, is from Puebla, Mexico.
- Mother, Joan Bridge, was born in Edinburgh, UK and is of English-Scottish descent.
- Travels by bus on a musical tour of the United States. (March 2004)
- Her father, Albert V. Baez, died 20 March 2007 at a nursing home in San Mateo County, California, USA. (March 2007)
- Her father was a physicist and inventor of the X-ray reflection microscope.
- Resides in Woodside, California.
- Sister-in-law of Richard Farina.
- Ex-sister-in-law of Milan Melvin.
- Met her husband David Harris in Santa Rita jail after being arrested in a large action to shut down the Oakland Armed Forces Induction Center.
- Attended Boston University.
- Paternal grandfather was a Methodist minister in Mexico and founded the First Spanish Methodist Church in New York City.
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