1988
Search results
Margarita Mimi Baez Fariña (April 30, 1945 – July 18, 2001) was an American singer-songwriter and activist, the youngest of three daughters to a white mother and Mexican-American physicist Albert Baez. She was the younger sister of the singer and activist Joan Baez.
Fariña then travelled to Europe, where he met Mimi Baez, the teenage sister of Joan Baez, in the spring of 1962. Hester divorced Fariña soon thereafter, and Fariña married 17-year-old Mimi in April 1963.
Apr 29, 2016 · I am gazing, as I write, at a black-and-white photograph of Richard Fariña with his wife, Mimi (née Baez) Fariña, taken backstage at the Newport Folk Festival nine months before his death—fifty years ago this week—at the age of twenty-nine. To call the photo romantic would be an understatement.
Feb 15, 2021 · Richard and Mimi married in Paris in April 1963. Mimi was seventeen, and the marriage was a secret: she was still a minor, and her family were wary of the older man. The couple moved to California, near Joan’s house in Carmel, and were married for the second time with her family’s assent.
Jul 20, 2001 · Folk singer and charitable activist Mimi Farina died at her home in California on July 18th after a two-year battle with cancer; she was fifty-six. Born Margarita Mimi Baez on April 30, 1945,...
Jul 20, 2001 · Mimi Farina, a folk singer who struggled in the shadow of her celebrated sister, Joan Baez, and then reinvented herself as a musical benefactor of the infirm and imprisoned, died Wednesday of...
People also ask
Did Joan Baez sing on Mimi?
What is the effect of Mimi & Richard?
Why did Richard send Mimi a poem?
Jul 20, 2001 · Ms. Fariña, a sister of the singer Joan Baez, had a modestly successful folk duo with her husband, Richard Fariña, in the 1960's but was perhaps best known for founding Bread & Roses in 1974.
Related searches
