Biography

Buffy Sainte-Marie was a graduating college senior in 1962 and hit the ground running in the early Sixties, after the beatniks and before the hippies. All alone she toured North America's colleges, reservations and concert halls, meeting both huge acclaim and huge misperception from audiences and record companies who expected Pocahontas in fringes, and instead were both entertained and educated with their initial dose of Native American reality in the first person.

By age 24, Buffy Sainte-Marie had appeared all over Europe, Canada, Australia and Asia, receiving honors, medals and awards, which continue to this day. Her song Until It's Time for You to Go was recorded by Elvis and Barbra and Cher, and her Universal Soldier became the anthem of the peace movement. For her very first album she was voted Billboard's Best New Artist.

She disappeared suddenly from the mainstream American airwaves during the Lyndon Johnson years. Unknown to her, as part of a blacklist which affected Eartha Kitt, Taj Mahal and a host of other outspoken performers, her name was included on White House stationery as among those whose music "deserved to be suppressed", and radio airplay disappeared. Invited onto television talk shows on the basis of her success with Until It's Time for You to Go, she was told that Native issues and the peace movement had become unfashionable and to limit her comments to celebrity chat. The next presidential administration, that of Richard Nixon, also came down hard on her, as this was the time of Wounded Knee.

In Indian country and abroad, however, her fame only grew. Denied an adult television audience in the U.S., in 1975 she joined the cast of Sesame Street for five years. She continued to appear at countless grassroots concerts, AIM (American Indian Movement) events and other activist benefits in Canada and the U.S. She made 18 albums of her music, three of her own television specials, scored movies, garnered international acclaim, helped to found Canada's Music of Aboriginal Canada JUNO category, raised a son, earned a Ph.D. in Fine Arts, taught Digital Music as adjunct professor at several colleges, and won an Academy Award Oscar and a Golden Globe Award for the song Up Where We Belong.

2009 marked the release of her eighteenth album Running for the Drum, which won Buffy her third Juno Award. Packaged in tandem with the bio-documentary DVD Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life, the two disks together give audiences a glimpse into the life and work of this unique, always current artist.

Her album "Pathfinder - Buried Treasures was released in 2010. Excerpt from an interview with The Beat magazine, London, November 2010: The interview was prompted by the re-issue in two CD packages of both her best-known songs and a large number of rarely heard numbers...

"This CD is basically a collection of all the songs that people ask for at concerts. There is obviously 'Up VVhere We Belong' and songs like 'Universal Soldier, 'Until It's Time For You To Go' which is my songwriter's simpler version, 'Cripple Creek', 'Now That The Buffalo's Gone', and 'Soldier Blue'."

The Pathfinder: Buried Treasures CD gathers together songs from three albums in the 70s. "There are 33 songs on the CD that cover all kinds of stuff - from rock 'n' roll to love songs, some country music, some blues, and things that sound like folk songs. I think it's a great mix of songs and I'm sure people will find a few surprises in there too."

Read full interviews, reviews, read her full biography, keep up with her tour schedule, hear more of her music and more at www.Creative-Native.com

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