JONI MITCHELL - THE BEST OF 60'S 70'S

Was born on November 7, 1943, into a family of three children, in Fort Macleod. The ancestors of his mother (a schoolteacher) were Scottish and Irish. His father came from a Norwegian family that may have had Sámi ancestry. His mother was a teacher, while his father was a flight lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) who trained new pilots at Fort Macleod Station (the RCAF's flight training site). RCAF).

Suffering from poliomyelitis at the age of 9, which threatened to leave her crippled for life, she learned music, then once cured, sang in the local church choir, but was, on the other hand, rebellious about piano lessons, and did not like not school. At the age of 11, she moved with her family to the city of Saskatoon, which she considered her hometown