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Buffy Sainte-Marie
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- Born:
- February 20, 1941 or February 20, 1942
Buffy Sainte-Marie, byname of Beverly Sainte-Marie, (born February 20, 1941/42, Piapot Reserve, Saskatchewan, Canada), Canadian-born American singer-songwriter, guitarist, political activist, and visual artist known especially for her use of music to promote awareness of issues affecting Native Americans. Orphaned as an infant in Canada when her mother, a Plains Cree, died in an automobile accident, Sainte-Marie was adopted by an American couple of Mi’kmaq ancestry and raised in Massachusetts and Maine. She played piano as a young child, and as a teenager she took up guitar and started composing her own songs. After completing high school, she attended the University ...(100 of 1000 words)