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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.
Jul 20, 2001 · July 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...
Jul 20, 2001 · Mimi Fariña, a folk singer and founder of an organization that brought free live music to the sick and imprisoned, died on Wednesday at her home in Mill Valley, Calif. She was 56. The cause was...
Apr 19, 2024 · She was just 56 when she died of the disease in 2001. Through her work with Bread & Roses, she touched so many lives and hearts that more than 2,000 people filled San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral...
4 days ago · Mimi Fariña (born April 30, 1945, Stanford, Calif., U.S.—died July 18, 2001, Mill Valley, Calif.) American folk singer and social activist who, with her first husband, Richard Fariña, helped revitalize folk music in the 1960s. She was the younger sister of folk singer Joan Baez.
Apr 19, 2024 · Remembering Mimi Fariña as Bread & Roses celebrates its 50th anniversary. Mimi Fariña founded Bread & Roses in 1974. Her legacy lives on in the Marin nonprofit 50 years later. (Martin E....
Feb 15, 2021 · February 15, 2021. Francesca Peacock. The lost folk singer Mimi Fariña's career shows the story of the 'greatest decade' of the 20th century in a new light. American singer-songwriter and activist Mimi Farina at Newport Folk Festival in 1967. Credit: John Byrne Cooke Estate/Getty Images.
