Profile
Mimi Fariña
Singer + Songwriter + Musician
Female
Born
Apr 30, 1945
Hometown
York, Pennsylvania
Died
Jul 18, 2001
Death Place
Mill Valley, Cali...
Genres
Bluegrass + Folk ...
Instruments
Guitar + Singing
Performed With
Richard Fari%C3%B...
Mimi Baez Fariña was a singer-songwriter and activist, the youngest of three daughters to a Mexican-American physicist Albert Baez and a Scottish mother. She is the younger sister of singer and activist Joan Baez.
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d.2001
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1945
Birth
Born on April 30, 1945.
TEENAGE
1963
18 Years Old
Fariña met novelist, musician, and composer Richard Fariña in 1963 when she was 17 years old and married him at 18.
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TWENTIES
1966
21 Years Old
After Richard Fariña's death (on Mimi's twenty-first birthday) in a 1966 motorcycle accident, Mimi married Milan Melvin and continued to perform, sometimes recording and touring with either her sister, Joan, or the folksinger, Tom Jans, with whom she recorded an album in 1971, entitled, Take Heart.
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1973
28 Years Old
By 1973, she was asked to accompany her sister Joan and B.B. King when they performed for the prisoners in Sing Sing Prison.
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1974
29 Years Old
In 1974, Fariña founded Bread and Roses, a nonprofit co-operative organization, designed to bring free music and entertainment to institutions: jails, hospitals, juvenile facilities, nursing homes, and prisons.
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FORTIES
1985
40 Years Old
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.
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FIFTIES
2001
56 Years Old
Fariña died of neuroendocrine cancer, at her home in California, on July 18, 2001, at age 56.
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