Buffy Sainte-Marie
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- Meltdown Festival
- Headful Of Heroes - NME (September 16, 1989)
- Your Arsenal Tour 1992 Pre-show Tracks
- Outside/Southpaw Grammar Tour 1995 Pre-show Tracks
- Statement from Morrissey - true-to-you.net (March 31, 2008)
- Morrissey's favourite 13 singles of all time (2010)
- Morrissey's most revered singers - true-to-you.net (January 1, 2014)
- World Peace Is None Of Your Business Tour
- The Morrissey Covers Album - Release Information (December 5, 2018)
- California Son
- SHAKE THE HAND THAT SHOOK THE HAND - Morrissey Central (January 5, 2024)
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Buffy Sainte-Marie (born February 20, 1941 in Stoneham, Mass as Beverly Jean Santamaria) is a singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, pacifist, educator, social activist, and philanthropist.
At times she has self-identified as Cree and stated she was born in Saskatchewan, Canada, to an indigenous family, but averred that her Canadian birth certificate from back then was lost or destroyed. She came under fire in late 2023 for allegedly manufacturing this indigenous background and hiding her Massachusetts birth to white parents of Italian ancestry, according to a CBC documentary that found her original 1941 U.S. birth certificate. Sainte-Marie’s Order of Canada appointment was terminated by an ordinance signed by Gov. Gen. Mary Simon on January 3, 2025; no reason was given for the termination.
She came up in the Greenwich Village scene in New York in the 1960s and her music has generally been categorized as folk and traditional music (although she did record one mostly-country album in Nashville: "I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again".) She won an Oscar in the mid-1980s for co-writing the hit "Up Where We Belong" for the "Officer And A Gentleman" film soundtrack.
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- https://www.discogs.com/artist/384185-Buffy-Sainte-Marie
- https://web.archive.org/web/20230606235544/http://www.creative-native.com/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20230323072904/http://buffysainte-marie.com/?page_id=10867
- https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/buffy-sainte-marie
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_Sainte-Marie
- https://canadianbands.com/artists/buffy-sainte-marie/
- https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/buffy-sainte-marie
- https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0756763/
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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. She has won recognition, awards, and honors for her music as well as her work in education and social activism. In 1983, her co-written song "Up Where We Belong", for the film An Officer and a Gentleman, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 55th Academy Awards. The song also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song that same year. Since the early 1960s, Sainte-Marie claimed Indigenous Canadian ancestry, but a 2023 investigation by CBC News concluded she was born in the United States and is of Italian and English descent. Some Indigenous musicians and organizations have since called for awards she won while falsely claiming an Indigenous identity to be rescinded, including her induction to the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. She subsequently had her Order of Canada, Canada's highest award bestowed to a civilian, revoked in 2025 as a result.