Jenny Vincent, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jenny Vincent

Date of Birth: 22-Apr-1913

Date of Death: 08-May-2016

Profession: singer, singer-songwriter

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Jenny Vincent

  • Jenny Wells Vincent (April 22, 1913 – May 8, 2016) was an American singer, songwriter, and activist.
  • A scholar of Hispano music, she is credited with helping to preserve New Mexican folk music.Vincent was born in Minnesota and raised in Chicago.
  • In 1936, following her graduation from Vassar College, she and her husband, Dan Wells, visited the San CristĂłbal, New Mexico, ranch of Freida Lawrence, the widow of D.
  • H.
  • Lawrence.
  • In 1937 they bought a ranch in San CristĂłbal and moved to New Mexico.
  • Soon after, they founded a school on the property for grades 5–12 for boarders and daytime students.
  • A classically trained musician,Vincent visited Taos-area schools where she played Mexican folk songs, although school administrators, pushing for assimilation, forbade speaking Spanish in classrooms.
  • She also traveled from town to town, recording local musicians singing and playing old folk songs, frequently in Spanish.
  • In 1943, Vincent became the Taos County representative for the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union, which, according to a biography, was "a milestone for her personal and political maturation.
  • In this work she found meaningful expression and practical application for her growing political convictions.” That same year, Vincent joined the Communist Party.Vincent and Wells were divorced in the early 1940s.
  • In 1949, she married Craig Vincent.
  • They remained at the San CristĂłbal property, converting the school to a guest ranch.
  • Its mission was "not to raise livestock" but to "foster a community among progressives looking for a refuge from the battles of the Cold War".
  • Among other political and social causes, the Vincents supported the Chicano Movement and the 1951 Salt of the Earth Strike.
  • Believing that music was a vehicle for social advocacy, Vincent played with like-minded musicians including Pete Seeger, Paul Robeson, Woody Guthrie, Malvina Reynolds and Earl Robinson.Vincent was one of six New Mexicans to receive the 2013 Governor’s Arts Award.
  • Recognized as "one of the finest folk musicians in the state", she was nominated by three past award recipients.
  • In 2006 she was honored by The University of New Mexico and the New Mexico State Historic Preservation Division for a lifetime of activism through popular culture.
  • She died in 2016 at the age of 103.
  • Her archives of original recordings were donated to the University of New Mexico’s Zimmerman Library.

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