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Judy Collins
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1939
- Works
- 53
Top works
- Baby's Bedtime Book and Tape
- Judy Collins Song Book
- Cravings
- Cravings
- Children of Jonah
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1939-05-01
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 295,705
- Total plays
- 2,529,652
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Judy Collins (born Judith Marjorie Collins on May 1, 1939, in Seattle, Washington) is an American singer and songwriter known for the eclectic range of material she records (which has included folk, show tunes, pop, and rock and roll, as well as and standards) and for her social activism. Beginning in 1959, she was drawn to the music of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, and the traditional songs of the folk revival of the early 1960s. In 1968 she was awarded a Grammy for "Both Sides Now". <a href="
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project
· 1996 · cited 18,867x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,623x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,989x
- UK Biobank: An Open Access Resource for Identifying the Causes of a Wide Range of Complex Diseases of Middle and Old Age
· 2015 · cited 12,415x
- The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans
· 2020 · cited 9,188x
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Key facts
- Born
- Judith Marjorie Collins , ( 1939-05-01 ) May 1, 1939 (age 87) , Seattle, Washington , U.S.
- Origin
- Denver, Colorado , U.S.
- Genres
- Folk Americana country rock and roll pop
- Occupations
- Singer songwriter musician
- Instruments
- Vocals piano guitar autoharp
- Years active
- 1959–present
- Labels
- Elektra Geffen MCA Mesa Bluemoon Rhino Atlantic Wildflower Cleopatra
- Website
- judycollins .com
via Wikipedia infobox
~23 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Judith Marjorie Collins (born May 1, 1939) is an American singer-songwriter and musician with a career spanning nearly seven decades. An Academy Award-nominated documentary director and a Grammy Award-winning recording artist, she is known for her eclectic tastes in the material she records (which has included folk music, country, show tunes, pop music, rock and roll and standards), for her social activism, and for the clarity of her voice. Her discography consists of 36 studio albums, nine live albums, numerous compilation albums, four holiday albums, and 21 singles.
Collins' debut studio album, A Maid of Constant Sorrow, was released in 1961 and consisted of traditional folk songs. She had her first charting single with "Hard Lovin' Loser" (No. 97) from her fifth studio album In My Life (1966), but it was the lead single from her sixth studio album Wildflowers (1967), "Both Sides, Now" – written by Joni Mitchell – that gave her international prominence. The single reached No. 8 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart and won Collins her first Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance. She enjoyed further success with her recordings of "Someday Soon", "Chelsea Morning" (also written by Mitchell), "Amazing Grace", "Turn! Turn! Turn!", and "Cook with Honey".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Judy Collins” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.