For six decades, Buffy Sainte-Marie has been more than a singer-songwriter. She’s been a true artist. By weaving politically charged and emotionally weighty narratives into her distinctive brand of ...

Buffy Sainte-Marie, a Cree musician, artist and activist, has always been ahead of the pack. For six decades, she has fought for Indigenous rights and visibility through her work. She spoke out ...

“It’s My Way” is the title track on Buffy Sainte-Marie’s first album, released in 1964. The cover of the album depicts Sainte-Marie with a mouth bow. A staple of Sainte-Marie’s early style, the mouth ...

5:18 p.m. Nov. 27, 2022: In an earlier version of this article, music manager Manny Greenhill was incorrectly transcribed as Manny Greenfield. The coffeehouse musicians that were the dominant force in ...

Elvis Presley didn’t sing too many protest songs, but one of his ballads was written by one of the most important protest singers of the 1960s: Buffy Saint-Marie. Elvis wasn’t the only artist to ...

I was that little 5-year-old girl who sat and listened to every song of Buffy Sainte-Marie’s first album. It was an LP full of songs like “The Universal Soldier” and “Now That the Buffalo’s Gone.” I ...

Buffy Sainte-Marie, native Canadian singer-songwriter, social activist and member of the Cree First Nation, is now in her 70s and has co-authored the first and only authorized biography that tells her ...

Oscar-winning songwriter and Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductee Buffy Sainte-Marie, known for the anti-war song “Universal Soldier” and stolen-land lament “Now That the Buffalo’s Gone,” has had her ...