Joni Mitchell

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,,, Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, born Roberta Joan Anderson in Fort Macleod, Alberta (1943). She contracted polio as a kid, and although she recovered, her fingers suffered some lasting effects. When she began playing the ukulele, and later the guitar, she had to devise her own way of playing and tuning her instrument. For a while, she didn’t know whether she wanted to be a musician or an artist, and she studied art in Calgary for a year, but she changed her mind and moved to Toronto to become a singer and a songwriter."

Thanks Writer's Almanac