Buffy Sainte-Marie
The Authorized Biography
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Andrea Warner
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Buffy Sainte-Marie
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Andrea Warner
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"Buffy Sainte-Marie is an icon and inspiration. This book is necessary - an authorized insight into the making of a legend." (Terese Marie Mailhot, author of Heart Berries)
A powerful, intimate look at the life of a beloved folk icon and activist.
Folk hero. Songwriter icon. Living legend. Buffy Sainte-Marie is all of these things and more. In this, Sainte-Marie’s first and only authorized biography, music critic Andrea Warner draws from more than 60 hours of exclusive interviews to offer a powerful, intimate look at the life of the beloved artist and everything that she has accomplished in her 77 years (and counting).
Since her groundbreaking debut, 1964’s It’s My Way!, the Cree singer-songwriter has been a trailblazer and a tireless advocate for Indigenous rights and freedoms, an innovative artist, and a disruptor of the status quo. Establishing herself among the ranks of folk greats such as Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan, she has released more than 20 albums, survived being blacklisted by two US presidents, and received countless accolades, including the only Academy Award ever to be won by a First Nations artist. But this biography does more than celebrate Sainte-Marie’s unparalleled talent as a songwriter and entertainer; packed with insight and knowledge, it offers an unflinchingly honest, heartbreakingly real portrait of the woman herself, including the challenges she experienced on the periphery of showbiz, her healing from the trauma of childhood and intimate partner violence, her commitment to activism, and her leadership in the protest movement.
©2018 Andrea Warner (P)2021 Greystone BooksWhat the critics say
"Buffy Sainte-Marie is an icon and inspiration. This book is necessary - an authorized insight into the making of a legend." (Terese Marie Mailhot, author of Heart Berries)
"A crucial and compelling book that further cements Buffy Sainte-Marie's place in music history." (Jessica Hopper, author of The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic)
"Buffy Sainte-Marie is a beacon: she shows us how unwavering vision and fierce independence go hand-in-hand with the work of creating solidarity, community, justice, and beauty. This book is the captivating story of that achievement." (Naomi Klein, author of No is Not Enough and This Changes Everything)
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- Roberta Quock
- 2023-02-11
Oh my Gooodness!! Love it!!!
Thank you St. Marie and Andrea Warner for this book. It gave lots of knowledge, inspiration!, peace and most of all Love!
I love this book because I didn’t know the life of Buffy and the stories behind the songs. And the first things she did before the world caught on. I’m so happy for her and her family. 🙏🏼💙🦋🐈🐐⛰️🌄🌋
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- Eric Prentice
- 2023-08-04
I’m Blown Away
I just so happen to be finishing this the same day Buffy has announced retiring from live performances/touring. I am gutted. However, this book has allowed me to have a fuller understanding of the impact Buffy has made on this world. She is the ultimate bad ass. Thank you Buffy for everything. This book was well written and thoughtful. I appreciate the details on how Buffy performs and the musical decisions she makes. I feel this book was incredibly respectful of very personal sensitive information and delivered in a way that allows us to fully be impacted by the content and to really care. The audiobook performance was great, I was engaged in the content from start to finish. Well done! #carryiton
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- Linda
- 2022-12-06
Hearbreakingly Honest
Opportunities for 21st Century mainstream audiences to truly grasp the Teacher that is Buffy Ste-Marie did not exist before the publication of this Biography.
Sad and uplifting. Brave and heartbreaking. Hopefully her story will become required reading in all the courses about how Human Beings are treated across Turtle Island.
Her books and music are an historical education everyone needs to have if we are ever going to create the political will to stop the ongoing abuse, murder and torment of a whole race of people.
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-10-29
A glaring and embarrassing lack of research
I wanted to hear Buffy's life story in contrast to what is being told in recent headlines, but listening to this is making it worse. Chapter 6 is just hard to listen to -- she has carried a torch for many decades she never had a right to carry. "You can never forget white people's complicity in colonialism," Buffy is quoted as saying. If she is indeed a white person, as is purported and her birth cert supports, this biography and victory lap as an indigeneous heroine is just awkward.
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