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I was very engaged by the folk music movement.Bob Dylan Joan Baez Peter, Paul and Mary. And then I sort of discovered world music, and fell in love with ethnic music of all sorts.

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Jill Stein
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: May 14
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