Buffy Sainte-Marie

ABOUT BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE

Academy Canadian-American Cree singer-songwriter of protest and love songs, including 1971's hit single "Soldier Blue."

She graduated as a top-ten student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

She wrote "Up Where We Belong," which won an Academy Award.

She married Jack Nitzsche on March 19, 1982.

Sainte-Marie's music was censored by radio stations in the United States, a move approved by President Lyndon B. Johnson .