Buffy Sainte-Marie: A living legend looks back at 81

Where do you start with a legend like Buffy Sainte-Marie? Maybe you go back to New York in the ‘60s, where she played alongside the likes of Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. Or maybe you're more familiar with her Oscar-winning song Up Where We Belong. Or maybe you were a kid in the ‘70s who saw Buffy breastfeed her son on Sesame Street (a first in television history). So again, where do you start with a legend like Buffy Sainte-Marie? Tom was able to sit down with her for a rare career chat and he decided to start at the beginning — in Saskatchewan, the place she was born. Buffy is the focus of a new CBC podcast, aptly called Buffy, which unpacks her music and impact on popular culture over the last five decades. Listen to Buffy talk about what it’s like when your music gets banned in the United States, why winning an Oscar doesn’t necessarily mean you can quit your day job and why — even at 81 years old — you can still be as creative as you were when you were a kid.

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Buffy Sainte-Marie: A living legend looks back at 81 is an episode from The Q Interview by CBC.

This episode is 00:37:56 long.

This episode was published on Jun 30, 2022.

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