Joan Baez
Joan Baez was a guitarist and singer-songwriter through the 1960s and was also responsible for introducing the world to Bob Dylan, her boyfriend at the time. She was passionate about human rights and diversity and included a song in Spanish on her debut album. Activism has been an important part of her life and career ever since she was young.
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan was a freewheeling songwriter who lived to travel. He was a "counterculture" musician, and most of his songs were anthems for other free spirits. "These times They Are a-Changin" was viewed as pretty political. Dylan was also a talented poet who became the first musician to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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