Buffy Sainte-Marie
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Buffy Sainte-Marie, OCis a Native Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. Throughout her career in all of these areas, her work has focused on issues of Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Her singing and writing repertoire also includes subjects of love, war, religion, and mysticism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWorld Music Singer
Date of Birth20 February 1941
CountryUnited States of America
teenager guitar painting
As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.
progress done manipulation
We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.
hands phones house
The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.
firsts machines macintosh
My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.
peace light acres
All the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre of green.
keys painting enough
The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.
being-happy joy noses
You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail.
wisdom inspirational-music towels
Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.
mother sorry native-american
I feel sorry for people of good heart who have never had a chance to learn the realities of Native American everything - not just our history but the sweetness and the beauty and the reasons why were so close to Mother Earth.
creating imagination digital
Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.
unique perspective understanding
Language and culture cannot be separated. Language is vital to understanding our unique cultural perspectives. Language is a tool that is used to explore and experience our cultures and the perspectives that are embedded in our cultures.
children grows raised
Children don't have to be raised. They'll grow.
dream song sleep
Some of my songs are like dreams, and when you go to sleep at night you don't know if you're gonna have a dream or what you're gonna dream about.
piano firsts first-time
I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life.