The legendary singer Joan Baez has participated in the BCN Film Fest where a documentary, I am a noise, about her life was screened. Baez answered questions from the public gathered at the Verdi cinema from Boston on Tuesday by video conference. During the colloquium she related that the first time she came to Barcelona, ??she did not know that there were two languages. “Joan Manuel Serrat explained it to me. He told me that Catalan and Spanish were spoken in Catalonia. He was my cicerone. He taught me to sing in Catalan.” The song he learned from Serrat was El Rossinyol. Baez recorded it in 1974 and still hasn’t forgotten it. On Tuesday he sang it for the audience of the film competition in perfect Catalan.
I am a noise is the result of the work of three directors, Miri Navasky, Maeve O’Boyle and Karen O’Connor, who followed Baez with their cameras on her last tour, now at 80 years old, and also at home. Furthermore, they went back to his childhood and youth. The legendary singer reveals in this documentary that she was a victim of sexual abuse by her father. It also tells of her relationship with Bob Dylan and reviews her musical successes and her years of activism. I am a noise film essential to know the star of the protest song.
