Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell is a Canadian musician, she was born in Fort MacLeod, Alberta in 1943, her real name is Roberta Joan Anderson Her mother was a teacher, and her father an officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force. After finishing the high school she went to Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, she started playing guitar and singing to make extra money, she started writing songs and people like them. At age of 9 she started smoking and she contracted polio during a Canadian epidemic, but she recovered after a stay in hospital and while she was in the hospital she started singing.

After leave the art collage in June 1964 she discovered she was pregnant and in 1965 she gave birth her baby girl but couldn’t care her baby, so she gave up her baby in adoption, a few weeks after her daughter birth she got married with a singer called Chuck Mitchell and she took his surname. She didn't see her daughter until 1997. After got married with Chuck Mitchell he took her to the U.S, they sang in a coffeehouses together, so she began writing songs for other singers, she wrote "Both Sides Now" and it was a hit for singer Judy Collins, so after many albums and hits she moved to jazz music in 1975. She retired in 2002. During the next few years, the only albums Mitchell released were compilations of her earlier work. She won 9 Grammies, released 18 albums and she worked with many artist in folk music and jazz. In 2006 she has a successful comeback. On February 12, 2010, “Both Sides Now” was performed at the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.

Mitchell is currently receiving treatment for the controversial condition called "Morgellons syndrome". She is loved as singer and songwriter in Canada and around the world.