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Joni Mitchell

The confessional singer-songwriter is among the most talented and influential artists of her generation.

Biography

When the dust settles, Joni Mitchell may stand as the most important and influential female recording artist of the late 20th century. Uncompromising and iconoclastic, she confounded expectations at every turn; restlessly innovative, her music evolved from deeply personal folk stylings into pop, jazz, avant-garde, and even world music, presaging the multicultural experimentation of the '80s and '90s by over a decade. While her records never sold in the same numbers enjoyed by contemporaries like Carole King, none experimented so recklessly with their artistic identities or so bravely explored territory outside of the accepted confines of pop music. ~ Jason Ankeny