{"id":882504,"date":"2026-10-14T22:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T22:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/882504\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T22:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T22:54:12","slug":"joni-mitchell-celebrates-citizenship-after-62-years-living-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/882504\/","title":{"rendered":"Joni Mitchell celebrates citizenship after 62 years living in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Folk music legend Joni Mitchell became a U.S. citizen on Tuesday, the end of \u201ca journey that began 62 years ago,\u201d she wrote on social media.<\/p>\n

Mitchell, 82, on Wednesday posted a photo of herself on X standing in front of a large U.S. flag while holding a smaller one. She also included a four-second video of the citizenship ceremony in which hoots and applause are heard after the administrator calls out, \u201cJoni Mitchell, Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n

A journey that began 62 years ago. https:\/\/t.co\/y1eGhP3kBo<\/p>\n

\u2014 Joni Mitchell (@jonimitchell) October 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

She was born Roberta Joan Anderson on Nov. 7, 1943, in Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada, to Bill, a grocer, and Myrtle, a schoolteacher, according to her official site<\/a>. The family moved to Saskatchewan after World War II, eventually settling in Saskatoon, the city she considers her hometown.<\/p>\n

\"Young <\/p>\n

Folk singer and songwriter Joni Mitchell strums her guitar outside the Revolution Club in London in 1968.<\/p>\n

(Central Press \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The singer of hits including \u201cBig Yellow Taxi,\u201d \u201cRiver,\u201d \u201cBoth Sides, Now\u201d and \u201cCalifornia\u201d first arrived in the States as a relative unknown in the summer of 1965 along with her musician husband Chuck Mitchell. The couple landed in Detroit, but Joni moved to New York City in 1967 after divorcing. Later that year, she moved in with singer David Crosby in Southern California, and in 1968, she bought a Laurel Canyon bungalow with Crosby\u2019s bandmate, Graham Nash, becoming a central figure in the area\u2019s bustling folk scene. <\/p>\n

In 1974, she purchased a Spanish Colonial Bel-Air house that she still owns. A five-bedroom Malibu beachfront property<\/a>, which she later acquired, is currently listed for sale for $25<\/a>-$27<\/a> million.<\/p>\n

Mitchell won the first of her 11 Grammy Awards for folk performance for \u201cClouds\u201d in 1970. Her most recent was awarded in February<\/a> when she was honored for historical album along with Patrick Milligan and Bernie Grundman for \u201cJoni Mitchell Archives – Volume 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980).\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Folk music legend Joni Mitchell became a U.S. citizen on Tuesday, the end of \u201ca journey that began…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2428,23,370530,9072,2356,103,5108,34283,370531,22074,370532,76515,3,36448,21,19,22,20,25,24,28833,2394],"class_list":["post-882504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-alberta","tag-america","tag-bandmate","tag-bill","tag-california","tag-canada","tag-citizenship","tag-crosby","tag-fort-macleod","tag-hit","tag-hoot","tag-joni-mitchell","tag-news","tag-singer","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-world-war-ii","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}