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Birth
Joni Mitchell was born on November 7, 1943 in Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada. Her birth name is Roberta Joan Anderson. She was also known as Roberta Joan Mitchell Joni Anderson. -
Age 9
Contracted polio in an outbreak and was hospitalized for weeks. Since she got polio Joni started considering singing or dancing since she was no longer able to be athletic. -
Age 11
Moved to saskatoon.
Preferred freethinking, and didn't like formal education, one of her teachers made an impact on her by telling Joni to write poetry. -
Age 17
Flunked out of school and hung out downtown. Until deciding she was getting too close to the criminal world.
Country music began to over role rock, Joni started wanting to play the guitar, but her mom didn't approve and instead played the ukulele.
Polio eventually affected her playing, started singing with friends. -
Age 18
Finished high school at Aden Bowmen Collegiate in Saskatoon, took art classes at the Saskatoon Technical Collegaite of Art in Calgary for 1963-64 school year -
First Paid Preformance
Joni's first paid performance at a Saskatoon club that features folk and jazz performances. -
Age 20
Dropped out of school again. Started getting gigs as a folk musician on weekends, and played at her college and local hotel.
Told her mom she intended on being a folk singer in Toronto. Joni left Western Canada and while on the train she wrote her first song "Day After Day"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFSuyxPFZ00
Buffy Sainte Marie (Saskatchewan-born Cree folk singer) was Joni Mitchell's inspiration. -
Age 21
Joni played Mariposa and that was her first gig for a major audience. -
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1964–1969: Folk breakthrough
Mitchell had a few gigs in Toronto's Yorkville neighborhood but mostly played in church basements and YMCA meeting halls. In late 1964 she discovered that she was pregnant by Calgary ex-boyfriend. In February 1965 she gave birth to a baby girl but placed her for adoption. The existence of Mitchell's daughter wasn't public until 1993 when an old roommate sold the story to a magazine. 21 year old married Chuck Mitchell in his hometown June of 1965. The marriage dissolved in early 1967. -
1969 Grammy Award
In 1969 Joni Mitchell had won Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance. -
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1970–1974: Mainstream success
March 1970, first Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance. The following month, Reprise released her third album, Ladies of the Canyon. Ladies of the Canyon, first gold album (selling over a half million copies). Decided to stop touring for a year and just write and paint, she was still voted "Top Female Performer" for 1970. Decided to return to the live stage after the great success of Blue, the album was released in October 1972. February 1974, her tour with the L.A. Express began. -
1974 Grammy Awards
In 1974 Joni Mitchell was nominated for Album of the Year, nominated for Record of the Year "Help Me", nominated for Pop Female Vocalist and Won Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) "Down to You". -
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1975–1980: Jazz explorations
Early 1975 to record acoustic demos of some songs, new song cycle was released in November 1975. During 1975 Mitchell also participated in several concerts. January 1976 she received a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Early 1976, Mitchell traveled with friends, mid-1977, Mitchell began work on new recordings. She began a collaboration with Mingus, who died before the project was completed in 1979. Mitchell's tour to promote Mingus began in August 1979. -
1976 Grammy Award
in 1976 Joni Mitchell was nominated for Pop Female Vocalist. -
1977 Grammy Awrads
In 1977 Joni Mitchell was nominated for Best Album Package. -
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1981–1993: Pop, electronics and protest
For a year and a half, Mitchell worked on the tracks for her next album, she married in 1982 to Larry Klein. In early 1983, Mitchell began a world tour, visiting Japan, Australia, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Scandinavia and then going back to the States. 1984 ended, Mitchell was writing new songs. In 1990 she participated in Roger Waters' The Wall Concert in Berlin. the first half of 1990 Mitchell recorded songs that appeared on her next album. -
1988 Grammy Awards
In 1988 Joni Mitchell was Nominated for Pop Female Vocalist. -
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1994–2001: Resurgence and vocal development
After a while, Mitchell came with 1994's Grammy-winning Turbulent Indigo.The divorce of Mitchell and Larry Klein had happened, their marriage had lasted about 12 years.1996 Mitchell agreed to release a Greatest Hits collection. Two years later she released her final set of "original" new work. Her Limited range/huskier vocals were connected to her smoking, believes that the changes in her voice in the 1990s were from vocal nodules, a compressed larynx, and the lingering effects of polio. -
1995 Grammy Awards
In 1995 Joni Mitchell won Best Pop Album and Best Album Package. -
2000 Grammy Awards
In 2000 Joni Mitchell was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal and won Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. -
2002 Grammy Awards
in 2002 Joni Mitchell won the Lifetime Achievement Award. -
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2002–2005: Retirement and retrospectives
Mitchell at the time said that Travelogue would be her final album. In a 2002 interview with Rolling Stone, Mitchell expressed her dislike of the record industry's dominance and her desire to control her own destiny. In 2003, her Geffen recordings were collected in a remastered four-disc box set. in 2005, Mitchell said that she was using a tape recorder to get her memories. Mitchell would no longer tour or give concerts but had made public appearances to speak on environmental issues. -
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2006–2015: Late recordings
October 2006 Mitchell revealed she was recording new songs after nearly a decade. Four months later she said that the forthcoming album was inspired by the war in Iraq. February 2007 she returned to Calgary, mid-2007 confirmed speculation that she had signed a two-record deal with Starbucks' Hear Music label. 2010 interview Mitchell was quoted as saying that Bob Dylan was a fake and a plagiarist. In 2013 she was asked about the comments and responded by denying that she had made the statement. -
2007 Grammy Awards
in 2007 Joni Mitchell won Album of the Year for River: The Joni Letters and won Best Pop Instrumental Performance. -
2016 Grammy Awards
in 2016 Joni Mitchell won Best Album Notes "Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, a Ballet, Waiting to Be Danced"