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Mimi Baez Fariña (born Margarita Mimi Baez, April 30, 1945 – July 18, 2001) was a singer, songwriter, and activist. She was the daughter of physicist
Physicist

A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many Physics#Major fields of physics spanning all length scales: from atom particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole ....
 Albert Baez
Albert Baez

Albert Vinicio Baez, Ph.D. was a prominent Mexican-American physicist, and the father of singer Joan Baez. He was born in Puebla, Puebla, Mexico, and his family moved to the United States when he was two years old because his father was a Methodist minister....
 and sister of folk singer
Folk music

Folk music can have a number of different meanings, including:* Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous with the term "Traditional music", also often including World Music and Roots music; the term "Traditional music" was given its more specific meaning to distinguish it from the other definition...
 Joan Baez
Joan Baez

Joan Chandos Baez is a Mexican-United States folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. Many of her songs are Topical song and deal with social issues....
.

Fariña married novelist, musician and composer Richard Fariña
Richard Fariña

Richard George Fari?a was an United States writer and folksinger. He was a figure in both the counterculture scene of the early- to mid-sixties as well as the budding folk rock scene of the same era....
 in 1963 at the age of 17, and the two collaborated on a number of influential folk albums, most notably Celebrations for a Grey Day (1965) and Reflections in a Crystal Wind (1966).






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Mimi Baez Fariña (born Margarita Mimi Baez, April 30, 1945 – July 18, 2001) was a singer, songwriter, and activist. She was the daughter of physicist
Physicist

A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many Physics#Major fields of physics spanning all length scales: from atom particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole ....
 Albert Baez
Albert Baez

Albert Vinicio Baez, Ph.D. was a prominent Mexican-American physicist, and the father of singer Joan Baez. He was born in Puebla, Puebla, Mexico, and his family moved to the United States when he was two years old because his father was a Methodist minister....
 and sister of folk singer
Folk music

Folk music can have a number of different meanings, including:* Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous with the term "Traditional music", also often including World Music and Roots music; the term "Traditional music" was given its more specific meaning to distinguish it from the other definition...
 Joan Baez
Joan Baez

Joan Chandos Baez is a Mexican-United States folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. Many of her songs are Topical song and deal with social issues....
.

Fariña married novelist, musician and composer Richard Fariña
Richard Fariña

Richard George Fari?a was an United States writer and folksinger. He was a figure in both the counterculture scene of the early- to mid-sixties as well as the budding folk rock scene of the same era....
 in 1963 at the age of 17, and the two collaborated on a number of influential folk albums, most notably Celebrations for a Grey Day (1965) and Reflections in a Crystal Wind (1966). After Richard Fariña's death (on Mimi's 21st birthday) in a 1966 motorcycle accident, Mimi married Milan Melvin
Sweet Sir Galahad

"Sweet Sir Galahad" is a song written by Joan Baez, which she first performed in 1969 at Woodstock; she subsequently included it on her 1970 album One Day at a Time....
 and continued to perform, sometimes recording and touring with either her sister Joan, or folksinger Tom Jans
Tom Jans

Tom Jans was a Folk music from San Luis Obispo, California. He is perhaps best known for his song Loving Arms, which has been performed and recorded by dozens of artists and bands, including Elvis Presley, Dixie Chicks, Kris Kristofferson, Olivia Newton-John, Rita Coolidge, Livingston Taylor, Etta James and The Beautiful South....
.

In 1974, Fariña founded Bread and Roses
Bread and Roses

The slogan "Bread and Roses" originated in a poem of that name by James Oppenheim, published in American Magazine in December 1911, which attributed it to "the women in the West"....
, a non-profit organization, designed to bring free music and entertainment to hospitals, nursing homes, and prisons, initially in the San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Bay

San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining from approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento River and San Joaquin River rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean....
 area, and later nationally. It still remains in operation, producing 500 shows per year. The organization's name came from a 1911 poem by James Oppenheim
James Oppenheim

For the musician, see Boney James.James Oppenheim , was an United States poet, novelist, and editor.A lay analyst and early follower of C....
, Bread and Roses, which is commonly associated with a 1912 garment workers' strike
Lawrence textile strike

The Lawrence Textile Strike was a strike of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Massachusetts in 1912 led by the Industrial Workers of the World....
 in Lawrence
Lawrence, Massachusetts

Lawrence is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States on the Merrimack River. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 72,043....
, Massachusetts
Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. It borders Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north....
.

Though she continued to sing in her later years, releasing an album in 1985 and performing sporadically, Fariña devoted most of her time to running Bread and Roses. In the late eighties, she teamed up with Pete Sears
Pete Sears

Pete Sears is an England Rock music musician. In a career spanning more than four decades he has been a member of many bands and has moved through a variety of musical genres, from early R&B, psychedelic improvisational rock of the 1960s, folk, country music, arena rock in the 1970s, and blues....
 to play a variety of benefit and protest concerts. Many concerts were concerned with human rights issues in Central America, especially the US backed civil wars in Guatemala
Guatemala

Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize and the Caribbean to the northeast, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast....
 and El Salvador
El Salvador

El Salvador is the smallest country in the Americas and Central America by size, and the most densely populated nation in Central America. It borders on the Pacific Ocean between Guatemala and Honduras....
. They once set up to play on the abandoned railroad tracks outside Concord Naval Base in California. Surrounded by military police, Farina and Sears played a show for people protesting US weapons being shipped to government troops in El Salvador
El Salvador

El Salvador is the smallest country in the Americas and Central America by size, and the most densely populated nation in Central America. It borders on the Pacific Ocean between Guatemala and Honduras....
.

She died of a rare form of cancer of the endocrine system
Endocrine system

The endocrine system is a system of small organs that involve the release of extracellular signaling molecules known as hormones. The endocrine system is instrumental in regulating metabolism, human development , and tissue and also plays a part in determining Mood ....
 in July 2001 at age 56.

The life of Mimi Fariña is somewhat chronicled in David Hajdu's book, Positively Fourth Street. She also has a cameo appearance in Armistead Maupin
Armistead Maupin

Armistead Jones Maupin Jr. is an United States of America writer best known for his Tales of the City series of novels based in San Francisco....
's Tales of the City
Tales of the City (novel)

Tales of the City is the first book in the Tales of the City series by San Francisco, California novelist Armistead Maupin, originally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle....
, set in San Francisco in the 70's.

She is referenced by Carol Ward (Catherine O'Hara
Catherine O'Hara

Catherine Anne O'Hara is a Canada-United States Emmy Award- and Gemini Award-winning actor and comedienne. She is well known for her comedy work on Second City Television and for her film roles as Delia Deetz in Beetlejuice, Kate McCallister in Home Alone, Sally in The Nightmare Before Christmas and the series of mockumentar...
) in the US television series Six Feet Under
Six Feet Under

Six Feet Under is an United States television drama created by Alan Ball that was originally broadcast from 2001 to 2005. It was produced by Alan Ball, Alan Poul, Robert Greenblatt and David Janollari....
, stating she had been involved with the production of the (fictitious) Pack Up Your Sorrows: The Mimi Fariña Story. She was also the subject of her sister Joan Baez' 1969 song "Sweet Sir Galahad
Sweet Sir Galahad

"Sweet Sir Galahad" is a song written by Joan Baez, which she first performed in 1969 at Woodstock; she subsequently included it on her 1970 album One Day at a Time....
".

See also

  • Richard Fariña
    Richard Fariña

    Richard George Fari?a was an United States writer and folksinger. He was a figure in both the counterculture scene of the early- to mid-sixties as well as the budding folk rock scene of the same era....
  • Joan Baez
    Joan Baez

    Joan Chandos Baez is a Mexican-United States folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. Many of her songs are Topical song and deal with social issues....
  • Albert Baez
    Albert Baez

    Albert Vinicio Baez, Ph.D. was a prominent Mexican-American physicist, and the father of singer Joan Baez. He was born in Puebla, Puebla, Mexico, and his family moved to the United States when he was two years old because his father was a Methodist minister....
     (father and notable physicist)


External links

  • to Richard or Mimi Fariña
  • Performance on Rainbow Quest
  • , non-profit organization founded by Mimi to bring live entertainment to shut-ins