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Joan Baez

Luis Jimenez

Carlos Santana

Anthony Quinn

Edward James Olmos

Joan Baez - Singer

American folk singer and political activist who interested young audiences in folk music during the 1960s.

The daughter of a physicist whose teaching and research took him to various communities in New York, California, and elsewhere, Baez moved often and acquired little formal musical training. Her soprano voice, usually accompanied only by her own guitar arrangements, was sometimes criticized as too pretty. However, she was in the forefront of the 1960s folk-song revival, popularizing traditional songs through her performances in coffeehouses, at music festivals, and on television and through her record albums, which were best-sellers from 1960 through 1964 and remained popular into the 1970s.

Luis Jiménez - Artist (example of artwork)

The work of Mexican American artist Luis Jiménez crosses many cultural and geographic boundaries, combining the American with the Mexican. This first national tour of his work includes working drawings and maquettes, as well as large-scale indoor and outdoor sculpture that address contemporary issues with the bold exuberance that is unmistakably Jiménez.

Jiménez was raised in the border town of El Paso, Texas, where he worked in his fathers sign-painting shop and mastered the techniques of welding and spray-painting. Equipped with an appreciation for craftsmanship in an immigrant town where the traditional and the new flourished side by side, Jiménez became interested in the roles of myth, popular culture, and public art. For the past three decades he has worked at and become celebrated for the integration of "low-brow" materials, such as spray paint and fiber-glass, with popular myths about the continually changing American West in boldly expressive, sometimes controversial public sculpture projects.

Despite almost three decades of national visibility and numerous public commissions around the country, Jiménez's work has never been assembled into a major traveling exhibition. Luis Jiménez: Working-Class Heroes: Images from the Popular Culture is a mid-career milestone that surveys the breadth of Jiménez's collection of secular icons to date. The exhibition lends itself to a wide variety of educational programming and is accompanied by a color catalogue with essays contributed by Dave Hickey and Michael Brenson.

Carlos Santana was born in Aultan de Navarro in Mexico on July 20th 1947. He was raised in a very musical family and learned music theory at a young age. When his family moved to San Francisco, he elected to move to Tijuana where he would pursue music. A year later he moved back to San Francisco and began school. There was many cultural experinces for him at the time but mostly he hung out at the beaches. Carlos: "At the time I was hanging around North Beach almost every day, drinking wine and listening to the conga players as I watched the sea." It wasn't long before he had perfected his own unique style.

In 1966, the Santana Blues Band hit the streets and made a name for themselves. The wave of popularity continued to grow over the next two years like a hurricane over warm Atlantic waters. Next thing they knew they were playing a Woodstock '69. Carlos Santana spiced up the show with his latin flavored rock and gave all he had to offer. They ended thier set with the amazing performance of "Soul Sacrifice" which was eventually put on there first album. Over the years Carlos Santana would continue to put out more than twenty-seven different records and sngles, over 30 years in the music bussiness. He would the players in his band regularly as time proceeded, but never losingthat unique, one and only, Santana sound.

The World embraces Santana with a deep passion. They are always intrigued by his music. Fans love his messages- positivity, compassion, and understanding-that have touched many peoples lives in personal and sentimental manners. His guitar playing is also still looked upon in awe and remains one of the worlds most repected guitarists. I give complete props to Santana.

Film actor; born in Chihuahua, Mexico. Of Irish-Mexican parentage, he grew up in the U.S.A., and after a few stage roles, he made his movie debut in Parole! (1936). For many years he was confined to small parts as an ethnic or exotic, usually as a menacing foreigner or Indian. The status of his roles changed when he won an Oscar for Viva Zapata (1952) and gained critical acclaim in Fellini's La Strada (1954), but his looks and manner kept him playing exotics, the most notable being Zorba the Greek (1964); he later appeared in a musical version of this and he starred in the television series, The Man and the City. He was also a serious painter for many years.

Edward James Olmos (Joe) is a celebrated actor, filmmaker and political activist. He was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award in 1986 for his performance as Jaime Escalante, the inspirational science and math teacher in "Stand and Deliver," and became a familiar face to television audiences as the taciturn police Lieutenant Martin Castillo on the series "Miami Vice," for which he won both Emmy and Golden Globe Awards.

In 1992, Olmos made his feature directorial debut with "American Me," which he wrote and starred in, playing a Mexican-American gangster running a crime syndicate out of a California prison. (Olmos co-produced the film with Robert M. Young.) His other films include "Lorca," "A Million to Juan," Gregory Nava's "My Family," and "Mirage." On television, he has appeared in "The Fortunate Pilgrim," "Menedez: A Murder in Beverly Hills," Larry McMurtry's "Dead Man's Walk," and will soon be seen in "The Limbic Region" for MGM/Showtime. Olmos was honored with a Golden Globe Award for his work in the HBO production "The Burning Season," about Brazilian political activist Chico Mendez. Olmos also narrated the documentary "Maria's Story" and directed the TV film "Walking on Water."