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Lily Tomlin
Tomlin at the 2014 Kennedy Center Honors
Birth name
Mary Jean Tomlin
Born
(1939-09-01) September 1, 1939 (age 78)
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Medium
Stand-up, television, film, theatre
Years active
1965–present
Genres
Observational comedy
Improvisational comedy
Spouse
Jane Wagner (m. 2013)
(domestic partner, 1971–2013)
Website
www.lilytomlin.com
Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin (born September 1, 1939)[1] is an American actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer. Tomlin began her career as a stand-up comedian, and performing Off-Broadway during the 1960s. Her breakout role was performing as a cast member on the variety show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from 1969 until 1973. She currently stars on the Netflix series Grace and Frankie as Frankie Bergstein. Her performance as Frankie garnered her three consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2015, 2016, and 2017.
In 1974, Tomlin was cast by Robert Altman in her first film; her performance as Linnea Reese in Nashville won her several awards and nominations for the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
In 1977, her performance as Margo Sperling in The Late Show won her the Best Actress Award at the Berlin International Film Festival and nominations for the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Lead Actress. Her other notable films include 9 to 5 (1980), All of Me (1984), Flirting with Disaster (1996), Tea with Mussolini (1999), I Heart Huckabees (2004), and Grandma (2015).
Her signature role was written by her wife (then partner), Jane Wagner, in a show titled The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe which opened on Broadway in 1985 and won Tomlin the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play. She is also known as the voice of Ms. Frizzle on the children's series The Magic School Bus. She won her first Emmy Awards in 1974 for writing and producing her own television special, Lily. Tomlin won a Grammy Award for her 1972 comedy album This Is a Recording. In 2014, she was given Kennedy Center Honors and in 2017 she received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.[2]
Contents
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1 Early life
2 Career
2.1 Tomlin characters
2.2 Recordings
2.3 Motion pictures
2.4 Broadway and stage shows
2.5 Return to television
3 Personal life
4 Awards
4.1 Selected list
5 Filmography
6 Works and publications
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
Early life[edit]
Tomlin was born in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Lillie Mae (née Ford; January 14, 1914 – July 12, 2005),[3] a housewife and nurse's aide, and Guy Tomlin (March 3, 1913 – October 24, 1970), a factory worker. She has a brother, Richard Tomlin.[4][5] Tomlin's parents were Southern Baptists who moved to Detroit from Paducah, Kentucky, during the Great Depression.[6][7][8] She is a 1957 graduate of Cass Technical High School. Tomlin attended Wayne State University and originally studied biology. She auditioned for a play, and it sparked her interest in a career in the theatre and she changed her major. After college, Tomlin began doing stand-up comedy in nightclubs in Detroit and later in New York City. She continued studying acting at the HB Studio. Her first television appearance was on The Merv Griffin Show in 1965.[9]
Career[edit]
Tomlin characters[edit]
In 1969, after a stint as a hostess on the ABC series Music Scene, Tomlin joined NBC's sketch comedy show Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. Signed as a replacement for the departing Judy Carne, Tomlin was an instant success on the already established program, in which in addition to appearing in general sketches and delivering comic gags, she began appearing as the regular characters she created; they became well known and she portrayed them outside of the show in later recordings and television specials:
Ernestine was a nosy, condescending telephone operator who generally treated customers with little sympathy. Ernestine often snorted when she let loose a barbed response or heard something salacious; she also wore her hair in a 1940s hairstyle with a hairnet, although the character was contemporary. Her opening lines were often the comical "one ringy dingy... two ringy dingy", and, "is this the party to whom I am speaking?" In the sketches, Ernestine was usually at her switchboard taking calls. She occasionally called her boyfriend, Vito, a telephone repair man, or her pal Phoenicia, another operator.
Tomlin as Edith Ann, 1975
Tomlin reprised the role in 2016 for a TV ad as part of PETA's campaign against SeaWorld,[10] Tomlin has also reprised the role on several episodes of Sesame Street.
Edith Ann is a precocious five-and-a-half-year-old girl who waxes philosophical on everyday life, either about life as a kid or things for which she feels she has the answers, although she is too young to fully understand. She often ends her monologues with "And that's the truth", punctuating it with a noisy raspberry. Edith Ann sits in an oversized rocking chair (to make Tomlin seem child-sized) with her rag doll, Doris, and often talks of life at home with her battling parents and bullying older sister, Mary Jean (Lily Tomlin's given birth names). Edith Ann has an oversized, playfully aggressive dog named Buster and a boyfriend named Junior Phillips, a possibly unrequited love. (Only Edith Ann and "Doris" appear in the Edith Ann sketches.) Tomlin voiced her in two prime-time cartoon adaptations of the character that aired on ABC in 1994.
Mrs. Judith Beasley is a housewife and mother from Calumet City, Illinois, who is often chosen for television commercials and offers "good consumer advice". She appears in the film The Incredible Shrinking Woman as the lead character's neighbor.
Mrs. Earbore (The Tasteful Lady) is a somewhat prudish and prissy, conservatively dressed middle-aged apolitical woman who dispenses advice on gracious living and a life of elegance.
Susie the Sorority Girl is a blonde collegiate who could be the Tasteful Lady's daughter. Humorless and melodramatic, her biggest worries are the likes of who took her missing album by The Carpenters.
The Consumer Advocate Lady is a dour, austere woman who rigidly inspects and tests products for their alleged value. The Consumer Advocate Lady is something of a variation of Mrs. Beasley.
Lucille the Rubber Freak is a woman addicted to eating rubber, whose monologue details her habit from its beginning (chewing the eraser on pencils) to her obsessive rock bottom (eating the tip off mother's cane). Tomlin performed this character as part of her Laugh-In audition.
Tess/Trudy is a homeless bag lady who accosts theater-goers and various passers-by with her offbeat observations and tales of communications with extraterrestrials. ("They don't care if you believe in 'em or not—they're different from God.")
Bobbi-Jeanine is a showbiz veteran of the lounge circuit where she sings and plays organ. She often dispenses advice. ("It's not called Show Art, it's Show Business.")
Tomlin was one of the first female comedians to break out in male drag with her characters Tommy Velour and Rick. In 1982, she premiered Pervis Hawkins, a black rhythm-and-blues soul singer (patterned after Luther Vandross), with a mustache, beard, and close-cropped afro hairstyle, dressed in a three-piece suit. Tomlin used very little, if any, skin-darkening cosmetics as part of the character, instead depending on stage lighting to create the effect.
In 1970, AT&T offered Tomlin $500,000 to play her character Ernestine in a commercial, but she declined, saying it would compromise her artistic integrity.[11][12] In 1976, she appeared on Saturday Night Live[13] as Ernestine in a Ma Bell advertisement parody in which she proclaimed, "We don't care, we don't have to...we're the phone company." The character later made a guest appearance at The Superhighway Summit at UCLA on January 11, 1994, interrupting a speech being given on the information superhighway by then-Vice President Al Gore. She appeared as three of her minor characters in a 1998 ad campaign for Fidelity Investments that did not include Ernestine and Edith Ann.[12] In 2003, she made two commercials as an "updated" Ernestine for WebEx.[14]
Tomlin brought Edith Ann to the forefront again in the 1990s with three animated prime-time television specials. She published Edith Ann's "autobiography" My Life (1995), co-written with Jane Wagner.
Recordings[edit]
In 1972, Tomlin released This Is A Recording, her first comedy album on Polydor Records in 1972 that contained Ernestine's run-ins with customers over the phone. The album hit #15 on the Billboard Hot 200, becoming (and remaining as of 2011) the highest-charting album ever by a solo comedienne.[15] She earned a Grammy award that year for Best Comedy Recording.
Tomlin's second album, 1972's And That's The Truth, a collection of monologues as Edith Ann, was nearly as successful, peaked at #41 on the chart and earning another Grammy nomination. (Tomlin has two of the three top charting female comedy albums on Billboard, sandwiching a 1983 Joan Rivers release.)[15]
Tomlin's third comedy album, 1975's Modern Scream, a parody of movie magazines and celebrity interviews featured her performing as multiple characters, including Ernestine, Edith Ann, Judith, and Suzie. Her 1977 release Lily Tomlin On Stage, was an adaptation of her Broadway show that year. Each of these albums earned Tomlin additional Grammy nominations.
Tomlin recorded a single/EP called "The Last Duet" with Barry Manilow.
Motion pictures[edit]
Tomlin in a 1970 publicity photo for Laugh-In
Tomlin made her dramatic debut in Robert Altman's Nashville, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; she played Linnea Reese, a straitlaced, gospel-singing mother of two deaf children who has an affair with a womanizing country singer (played by Keith Carradine). The Oscar that year went to Lee Grant for her role in Shampoo. A comedy-mystery, The Late Show, teaming Tomlin with Art Carney, was a critical success in 1977. One of the few widely panned projects of Tomlin's career was 1978's Moment by Moment, directed and written by Wagner, which teamed Tomlin in a cross-generational older woman/younger man romance with John Travolta.
In 1980, Tomlin co-starred in 9 to 5, in which she played a secretary named Violet Newstead who joins coworkers Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton in seeking revenge on their boss, Franklin M. Hart, Jr., played by Dabney Coleman. The film was one of the year's top-grossing films. Tomlin starred in the 1981 science fiction comedy, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, a send-up of consumerism, and was the sickly heiress in the comedy, All of Me, opposite Steve Martin.
Tomlin and Bette Midler played two pairs of identical twins who were switched at birth in the 1988 comedy, Big Business. Tomlin also played chain-smoking waitress Doreen Piggott in Altman's 1993 ensemble film Short Cuts, based on stories by Raymond Carver. Tomlin performed in two films by director David O. Russell; she appeared as a peacenik Raku artist in Flirting with Disaster and later, as an existential detective in I ♥ Huckabees. In March 2007, two videos were leaked onto YouTube portraying on-set arguments between Russell and Tomlin, in which among other things he called her sexist names. When the Miami New Times asked Tomlin about the videos, she responded, "I love David. There was a lot of pressure in making the movie—even the way it came out you could see it was a very free-associative, crazy movie, and David was under a tremendous amount of pressure. And he's a very free-form kind of guy anyway."[16]
Tomlin collaborated again with director Robert Altman in what would prove to be his last film, A Prairie Home Companion (2006). She played Rhonda Johnson, one-half of a middle-aged Midwestern singing duo partnered with Meryl Streep.
In 2015, Tomlin starred in filmmaker Paul Weitz's film, Grandma,[17] which Weitz said was inspired by Tomlin, garnered rave reviews, and earned Tomlin a Golden Globe Award nomination.[18][19]
Broadway and stage shows[edit]
Tomlin was the first woman to appear solo in a Broadway show with her premiere of Appearing Nitely at the Biltmore theatre in April 1977. The same month, she made the cover of Time magazine with the headline "America's New Queen of Comedy". Her solo show then toured the country and was made into a record album titled On Stage. In 1985, Tomlin starred in another one-woman Broadway show The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, written by her long-time life partner, writer/producer Jane Wagner. The show won her a Tony Award and was made into a feature film in 1991. Tomlin revived the show for a run on Broadway in 2000 which then toured the country through mid-2002. In 1989, she won the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre. Tomlin premiered her one-woman show Not Playing with a Full Deck at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in November 2009. It was her first appearance in that city, though she did tape an Emmy-winning TV special, a spoof of Las Vegas called Lily: Sold Out which premiered on CBS in January 1981.
Return to television[edit]
Tomlin in 2008
Tomlin voiced Ms. Frizzle on the animated television series The Magic School Bus from 1994 to 1997. Also, in the 1990s, Tomlin appeared on the popular sitcom Murphy Brown as the title character's boss. In 2005 and 2006, she had a recurring role as Will Truman's boss Margot on Will & Grace. She appeared on the dramatic series The West Wing for four years (2002–2006) in the recurring role of presidential secretary Deborah Fiderer.
In the 2008-2009 fifth season of Desperate Housewives, she has a recurring role as Roberta, the sister of Mrs. McCluskey (played by Kathryn Joosten, who coincidentally had played Tomlin's secretarial predecessor on The West Wing). During the 2008 Emmy Awards, Tomlin appeared as part of a tribute to the influential 1960s television series Laugh-In. Tomlin voiced Tammy in the 2005 The Simpsons episode, "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas". Tomlin provided a voice for the film Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, which was released in August 2009.[20]
Since its launch in 2008, Tomlin has been a contributor for wowOwow.com, a website for women to talk culture, politics, and gossip.
Tomlin and Kathryn Joosten were in talks to star in a Desperate Housewives spin-off,[21] which was given the green light in May 2009.[22] The series plan was scrapped due to Joosten's illness, a recurrence of lung cancer; Joosten died on June 2, 2012, twenty days after the onscreen death from cancer of her Desperate Housewives character, Karen McCluskey. In 2010, Tomlin guest-starred as Marilyn Tobin in the third season of Damages opposite Glenn Close, for which she was nominated for an Emmy. She also appeared in an episode of NCIS, titled "The Penelope Papers", playing Agent Timothy McGee's (Sean Murray) grandmother, Penelope Langston. In 2012, Tomlin guest starred on the HBO series Eastbound and Down. Appearing as Tammy Powers, mother of Kenny Powers, the show's main character, Tomlin appeared in three episodes of Season 3.
Tomlin co-starred with Reba McEntire in the TV series Malibu Country as Reba's character's mother Lillie Mae. The series started shooting in August 2012 with a premiere date of November 2, 2012, at 8:30 pm ET but was canceled in 2013 after 18 episodes.
Tomlin stars opposite Jane Fonda, Martin Sheen, and Sam Waterston in the Netflix original series Grace and Frankie. Tomlin plays Frankie Bergstein, recently separated from her husband of forty years (Waterston) while Fonda plays Grace Hanson, recently separated from her husband (Sheen). Grace and Frankie become reluctant friends after learning their husbands are leaving them to be with one another. She received her first Emmy nomination as a lead actress for the role.[23]
Tomlin will be reprising her role as now Professor Frizzle in the 2017 Netflix reboot The Magic School Bus Rides Again.
Personal life[edit]
Tomlin in April 2013
Tomlin met her future wife, writer Jane Wagner, in March 1971. After watching the after-school TV special "J.T." written by Wagner, Tomlin invited Wagner to Los Angeles to collaborate on Tomlin's comedy LP record album And That's The Truth.[24] The couple had no formal coming out. Tomlin said in 2006:
I certainly never called a press conference or anything like that. [Back in the '70s,] people didn't write about it. Even if they knew, they would [refer to Jane as] "Lily's collaborator," things like that. Some journalists are just motivated by their own sense of what they want to say or what they feel comfortable saying or writing about. In '77, I was on the cover of Time. The same week I had a big story in Newsweek. In one of the magazines it says I live alone, and the other magazine said I live with Jane Wagner. Unless you were so really adamantly out, and had made some declaration at some press conference, people back then didn't write about your relationship. In '75 I was making the Modern Scream album and Jane and I were in the studio. My publicist called me and said, "Time will give you the cover if you'll come out." I was more offended than anything that they thought we'd make a deal. But that was '75—it would have been a hard thing to do at that time.[24]
Tomlin stated in 2008, "Everybody in the industry was certainly aware of my sexuality and of Jane...in interviews, I always reference Jane and talk about Jane, but they don't always write about it."[25][26]
On December 31, 2013, Tomlin and Wagner married in a private ceremony in Los Angeles after 42 years together.[27][28]
Tomlin has been involved in a number of feminist and gay-friendly film productions, and on her 1975 album Modern Scream she pokes fun at straight actors who make a point of distancing themselves from their gay and lesbian characters—answering the pseudo-interview question, she replies: "How did it feel to play a heterosexual? I've seen these women all my life, I know how they walk, I know how they talk..."[7]
In 2013, Tomlin and Wagner worked together on the film An Apology to Elephants, which Wagner wrote and Tomlin narrated.[29]
Awards[edit]
Tomlin has received numerous awards,[30][31] including: four primetime Emmys; a special 1977 Tony[32] when she was appearing in her one-woman Broadway show, Appearing Nitely; a second Tony as Best Actress, two Drama Desk Awards[32] and an Outer Critics Circle Award for her one-woman performance in Jane Wagner's The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe; a CableACE Award for Executive Producing the film adaptation of The Search; a Grammy Award for her comedy album, This is a Recording (a collection of Ernestine the Telephone Operator routines[33]) as well as nominations for her subsequent albums Modern Scream, And That's the Truth, and On Stage; and two Peabody Awards — the first for the ABC television special, Edith Ann's Christmas: Just Say Noël and the second for narrating and executive producing the HBO film, The Celluloid Closet.
In 1992, she was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award.[34] Tomlin was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 1998. In 2003, she was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Also in 2003, she was recognized again by Women in Film with the Lucy Award in recognition of her excellence and innovation in her creative works that have enhanced the perception of women through the medium of television.[35] In March 2009, Tomlin received Fenway Health's Dr. Susan M. Love Award for her contributions to women's health.[36]
On March 16, 2012, Lily Tomlin and her partner Jane Wagner received the 345th star on the Walk of Stars in Palm Springs, California.[37]
In December 2014, she was one of five honorees for the annual Kennedy Center Honors. In January 2017 Tomlin won the lifetime achievement Award at the 23rd annual Screen Actors Guild Ceremony.
Selected list[edit]
Tony Awards
1986 Best Actress in a Play, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe[32]
1977 Special Tony Award, Lifetime Achievement[32]
Grammy Awards
1972 Best Comedy Album, This Is A Recording[33]
Emmy Awards
Tomlin has won six Emmy awards and a Daytime Emmy:[38]
1981 Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series, Lily: Sold Out (ABC)
Lily Tomlin, executive producer and star; Rocco Urbisci, producer; Jane Wagner, executive producer
1974 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy-Variety, Variety or Music Special, Lily (1973) (CBS)
Jerry McPhie, Irene Pinn, Herbert Sargent
Outstanding Writing—Comedy-Variety or Music Special
1974 Lily (CBS)
Rosalyn Drexler, Ann Elder, Karyl Geld, Robert Illes, Lorne Michaels, Richard Pryor, Jim Rusk, Herb Sargent, James R. Stein, Lily Tomlin, Jane Wagner, Rod Warren, George Yanok, Writers
1976 Lily Tomlin (ABC)
Ann Elder, Christopher Guest, Lorne Michaels, Earl Pomerantz, Jim Rusk, Lily Tomlin, Jane Wagner, Rod Warren, George Yanok, Writers. Additionally, Lily (1973; above), in which she starred but did not produce, won for Outstanding Comedy-Variety, Variety Or Music Special, 1974 Jerry McPhie, Herb Sargent, producers; Irene Pinn, executive producer)
1978 The Paul Simon Special (NBC)
Chevy Chase, Tom Davis, Al Franken, Charles Grodin, Lorne Michaels, Paul Simon, Lily Tomlin, Alan Zweibel, Writers
Outstanding Voice-Over Performance
2013 An Apology to Elephants
Daytime Emmy Award
1995 Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program, The Magic School Bus
Screen Actors Guild Awards
2017 Lifetime Achievement Award
Filmography[edit]
Main article: Lily Tomlin filmography
Works and publications[edit]
Tomlin, Lily, and Jane Wagner. On Stage. New York, N.Y.: Arista, 1977. Recorded live at the Biltmore Theatre, New York City. Audio book on LP. OCLC 858894156.
Wagner, Jane, Elon Soltes, Wendy Apple, and Lily Tomlin. Appearing Nitely. Valley Village, Calif.: Tomlin and Wagner Theatricalz, 1992. Recorded live at the Huntington Hartford Theater in Los Angeles, Calif. Originally produced for television in 1978. Video recording. OCLC 28219227.
Wagner, Jane. Edith Ann: My Life, So Far. New York: Hyperion, 1994. As told to and illustrated by Jane Wagner. ISBN 978-0-786-86120-0. OCLC 31236871.
Tomlin, Lily, Jane Wagner, and Anna Deavere Smith. Conversation with Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner, October 25, 1994. San Francisco: City Arts & Lectures, Inc, 1994. Masonic Auditorium. OCLC 743427376
Wagner, Jane. J.T. New York: Carousel Films, 2000. DVD. Originally broadcast in 1969. Jeannette Du Bois, Theresa Merritt, Kevin Hooks. OCLC 63681705.
Tomlin, Lily, and Jane Wagner. And That's the Truth. United States: Universal Music Enterprises, 2003. Recorded live at The Ice House, Pasadena, March 1976. Audio book. OCLC 212930925
Tomlin, Lily, and Jane Wagner. The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. Tarzana, Calif.: Laugh.com, 2005. 1992 HBO television film. A film adaptation of the Broadway play by Jane Wagner. OCLC 63664207.
Wagner, Jane, Marilyn French, and Lily Tomlin. The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. New York, NY: ItBooks, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2012. Reprint. Originally published: New York: Harper & Row, 1986. Based on the Broadway play written by Wagner starring Lily Tomlin. Includes an Afterword by Marilyn French and Reflections by Lily Tomlin and by Jane Wagner. ISBN 978-0-062-10737-4. OCLC 798732509.
Wagner, Jane C., and Tina DiFeliciantonio. Girls Like Us. New York, NY: Women Make Movies, 2013. Originally produced as a motion picture documentary film in 1997. DVD. OCLC 843761980.
See also[edit]
Lily Tomlin filmography
Jane Wagner
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Katherine Hill Campbell
Lenna Frances Cooper
Roberta A. Griffith
Bina West Miller
Jeanne Omelenchuk
Sippie Wallace
Edna Noble White
Irene Clark Woodman
1994
Virginia Allan
Marie-Therese Guyon Cadillac
Ruth Carlton
Flossie Cohen
Bertha A. Daubendiek
Genora Johnson Dollinger
Flora Hommel
Sarah Van Hoosen Jones
Aleda E. Lutz
Helen Walker McAndrew
1995
Yolanda Alvarado-Ortega
Irene Auberlin
Hilda R. Gage
Lucia Voorhees Grimes
R. Louise Grooms
Odessa Komer
Laura Freele Osborn
Jacquelin E. Washington
1996
Carrie Frazier Rogers-Brown
Anna Clemenc
Waunetta McClellan Dominic
Margaret Muth Laurence
Claudia House Morcom
Betsy Graves Reyneau
Shirley E. Schwartz
Joan Luedders Wolfe
1997
Ellen Burstyn
Marion Corwell-Shertzer
Four Sisters of Charity
Della Goodwin
Alice Hamilton
Nancy Harkness Love
Maryann Mahaffey
Sharon E. Sutton
Matilda Dodge Wilson
1998
Connie Binsfeld
Hilda Patricia Curran
Marie Dye
Eleanor Josaitis
Dorrie Ellen Rosenblatt
Ella Merriman Sharp
Martha Jean Steinberg
Ruth Thompson
Lily Tomlin
1999
Patricia L. Beeman
Olympia Brown
Doris DeDeckere
Margaret Drake Elliott
Elizabeth Homer
Eleonore Hutzel
Ella Eaton Kellogg
Emily Burton Ketcham
Ardeth Platte
[show]
2000–2009
2000
Lillian Mellen Genser
Loney Clinton Gordon
Katherine G. Heideman
Dauris Gwendolyn Jackson
Cornelia Groefsema Kennedy
Marjorie J. Lansing
Chaun-Pu Lee
Marilyn Fisher Lundy
Katharine Dexter McCormick
Kathleen N. Straus
Clarissa M. Young
2001
Cora Reynolds Anderson
Lucile E. Belen
Theresa Maxis Duchemin
Aretha Franklin
Francie Kraker Goodridge
Marian Bayoff Ilitch
Mary Ellen Riordan
Joesphine Stern Weiner
2002
Hortense Golden Canady
Julia Wheelock Freeman
May Stocking Knaggs
Naomi Long Madgett
Lucille Hanna McCollough
Lana Pollack
Martha Louise Rayne
Muriel Dorothy Ross
2003
Mary Agnes Blair
Verne Burbridge
Nellie Cuellar
Alice Scanlan Kocel
Joyce Lewis Kornbluh
Eliza Seaman Leggett
Ida Lippman
Marion 'Babe' Ruth
Bernice "B" Steadman
Pamela Withrow
Ruth Zweifler
2004
Geraldine Bledsoe Ford
Jennifer Mulhern Granholm
Lystra Gretter
Florine Mark
Cathy McClelland
Constance Mayfield Rourke
2005
Margaret M. Chiara
Eva Lois Evans
Georgia A. Lewis Johnson
Lida Holmes Mattman
Olivia Maynard
Deborah Stabenow
Caroline Thrun
Margaret Sellers Walker
Elizabeth Weaver
2006
Cynthia Yao
Mary Esther Daddazio
Margery Feliksa
Nancy Hammond
Viola Liuzzo
Marge Piercy
Dora Hall Stockman
Martha Strickland Clark
Helen Hornbeck Tanner
2007
Mary Brown
Gertrude Buck
Emma Cole
Haifa Fakhouri
Carolyn Geisel
Jane Briggs Hart
Abigail Rogers
Kathleen Wilbur
Woman's Hospital Association (charter members)
2008
Carol Atkins
Patricia Cuza
Carol King
Vicki Neiberg
James Johnston Schoolcraft
Leta Snow
Mary Francilene Van de Vyver
2009
Carol Atkins
Grace Lee Boggs
Margaret Chandler
Ruth Ellis
Edna Ferber
Glenda Lappan
Kay Givens McGowan
Elizabeth Phillips
Jessica Rickert
Betty Tableman
Marlo Thomas
[show]
2010–2019
2010
Mary Aikey
Laura Carter Callow
Augusta Jane Chapin
Sandra Laser Draggoo
Annie Etheridge
Sherrill Freeborough
Dorean Marguerite Hurley Koenig
Terry McMillan
Edith Munger
Cynthia J. Pasky
2011
Lois A. Bader
Jumana Judeh
Marilyn Kelly
Valeria Lipczynski
Edelmira Lopez
Kary Moss
Rose Mary C. Robinson
Patricia Saunders
2012
Gladys Beckwith
Patricia Caruso
Mary Jane Dockeray
Judith Karandjeff
Les Meres et Debutantes Club of Greater Lansing
Serena Williams
L. Anna Ballard
Eva McCall Hamilton
Mary E. McCoy
2013
Elizabeth W. Bauer
Judith Levin Cantor
Paula Cunningham
Joan Jackson Johnson
Gladys McKenney
Marina von Neumann Whitman
Con-Con Eleven
Elizabeth Eaglesfield
Harriet Quimby
2014
Elizabeth Lehman Belen
MaryLee Davis
Jeanne Findlater
Dorothy A. Johnson
Julie Krone
Mary Carmelita Manning
Barbara Roberts Mason
Marylou Olivarez Mason
Andra M. Rush
Mary Ellen Sheets
Lucille Farrier Stickel
2015
Jocelyn Benson
Maxine Berman
Sue Carter
Janet C. Cooper
Mabel White Holmes
Candice Miller
Esther K. Shapiro
Maggie Walz
Myra Wolfgang
Linda M. Woods
2016
Elizabeth Sparks Adams
Anan Ameri
Daisy Elliott
Faith Fowler
Evelyn Golden
Olivia Letts
Mary Free Bed Guild
Diana Ross
Lou Anna Kimsey Simon
Charlotte Wilson
[show]
Awards for Lily Tomlin
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Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program
Lily Tomlin (1995)
Nathan Lane (1996)
Louie Anderson (1997)
Louie Anderson (1998)
Rob Paulsen (1999)
James Woods (2000)
Nathan Lane (2001)
Charles Shaughnessy (2002)
Gregory Hines (2003)
Joe Alaskey (2004)
Henry Winkler (2005)
Maile Flanagan (2006)
Eartha Kitt (2007)
Eartha Kitt (2008)
Jim Ward (2009)
Eartha Kitt (2010)
Danny Jacobs (2011)
June Foray (2012)
David Tennant (2013)
Hayley Faith Negrin (2014)
Danny Jacobs (2015)
Jeff Bennett (2016)
Kelsey Grammer (2017)
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Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play (1975–2000)
Ellen Burstyn (1975)
Rosemary Harris (1976)
Irene Worth (1977)
Jessica Tandy (1978)
Constance Cummings / Carole Shelley (1979)
Pat Carroll (1980)
Joan Copeland (1981)
Zoe Caldwell (1982)
Jessica Tandy (1983)
Joan Allen (1984)
Rosemary Harris (1985)
Lily Tomlin (1986)
Linda Lavin (1987)
Stockard Channing (1988)
Pauline Collins (1989)
Geraldine James (1990)
Mercedes Ruehl (1991)
Laura Esterman (1992)
Jane Alexander (1993)
Myra Carter (1994)
Cherry Jones (1995)
Zoe Caldwell (1996)
Janet McTeer (1997)
Cherry Jones (1998)
Kathleen Chalfant (1999)
Eileen Heckart (2000)
Complete list
(1975–2000)
(2001–2025)
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series (1970–79)
1970–1973
Gary Belkin, Peter Bellwood, Thomas Meehan, Herb Sargent and Judith Viorst (1970)
Herbert Baker, Hal Goodman, Larry Klein, Bob Schiller, Norman Steinberg, Bob Weiskopf and Flip Wilson / Bob Ellison and Marty Farrell (1971)
Art Baer, Roger Beatty, Stan Burns, Stan Hart, Don Hinkley, Ben Joelson, Woody Kling, Mike Marmer, Arnie Rosen and Larry Siegel / Anne Howard Bailey (1972)
Bill Angelos, Roger Beatty, Stan Hart, Robert Hilliard, Woody Kling, Arnie Kogen, Buz Kohan, Gail Parent, Tom Patchett, Larry Siegel and Jay Tarses / Joseph Bologna and Renee Taylor (1973)
1974–1978
Specials
Rosalyn Drexler, Ann Elder, Karyl Geld Miller, Robert Illes, Lorne Michaels, Richard Pryor, Jim Rusk, Herb Sargent, James R. Stein, Lily Tomlin, Jane Wagner, Rod Warren and George Yanok (1974)
John Bradford, Cy Coleman and Bob Wells (1975)
Ann Elder, Christopher Guest, Lorne Michaels, Earl Pomerantz, Jim Rusk, Lily Tomlin, Jane Wagner, Rod Warren and George Yanok (1976)
Buz Kohan and Ted Strauss (1977)
Chevy Chase, Tom Davis, Al Franken, Charles Grodin, Lorne Michaels, Paul Simon, Lily Tomlin and Alan Zweibel (1978)
Series
Roger Beatty, Gary Belkin, Dick Clair, Rudy De Luca, Arnie Kogen, Barry Harman, Barry Levinson, Jenna McMahon, Gene Perret, Bill Richmond and Ed Simmons (1974)
Roger Beatty, Gary Belkin, Dick Clair, Rudy De Luca, Arnie Kogen, Barry Levinson, Jenna McMahon, Gene Perret, Bill Richmond and Ed Simmons (1975)
Anne Beatts, Chevy Chase, Tom Davis, Al Franken, Lorne Michaels, Marilyn Suzanne Miller, Michael O'Donoghue, Herb Sargent, Tom Schiller, Rosie Shuster and Alan Zweibel (1976)
Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Tom Davis, James Downey, Al Franken, Lorne Michaels, Marilyn Suzanne Miller, Bill Murray, Michael O'Donoghue, Herb Sargent, Tom Schiller, Rosie Shuster and Alan Zweibel (1977)
Roger Beatty, Dick Clair, Tim Conway, Rick Hawkins, Robert Illes, Jenna McMahon, Gene Perret, Bill Richmond, Liz Sage, Larry Siegel, Franelle Silver, Ed Simmons and James Stein (1978)
1979
Alan Alda (1979)
Complete list
(1957–1969)
(1970–1979)
(1980–1989)
(1990–1999)
(2000–2009)
(2010–2019)
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance
Nancy Cartwright / Dan Castellaneta / Julie Kavner / Jackie Mason / Yeardley Smith / Marcia Wallace (1992)
Dan Castellaneta (1993)
Christopher Plummer (1994)
Jonathan Katz (1995)
none (1996)
Jeremy Irons / Rik Mayall (1997)
Hank Azaria (1998)
Ja'net Dubois (1999)
Seth MacFarlane / Julie Harris (2000)
Hank Azaria / Ja'net Dubois (2001)
Peter Macon / Pamela Adlon (2002)
Hank Azaria (2003)
Dan Castellaneta (2004)
Keith David (2005)
Kelsey Grammer (2006)
none (2007)
Keith David (2008)
Dan Castellaneta (2009)
Anne Hathaway (2010)
Maurice LaMarche (2011)
Maurice LaMarche (2012)
Lily Tomlin (2013)
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Kennedy Center Honorees (2010s)
2010
Merle Haggard
Jerry Herman
Bill T. Jones
Paul McCartney
Oprah Winfrey
2011
Barbara Cook
Neil Diamond
Yo-Yo Ma
Sonny Rollins
Meryl Streep
2012
Buddy Guy
Dustin Hoffman
David Letterman
Led Zeppelin
Natalia Makarova
2013
Martina Arroyo
Herbie Hancock
Billy Joel
Shirley MacLaine
Carlos Santana
2014
Al Green
Tom Hanks
Patricia McBride
Sting
Lily Tomlin
2015
Carole King
George Lucas
Rita Moreno
Seiji Ozawa
Cicely Tyson
2016
Martha Argerich
Eagles
Al Pacino
Mavis Staples
James Taylor
2017
Carmen de Lavallade
Gloria Estefan
LL Cool J
Norman Lear
Lionel Richie
Complete list
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
[show]
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Mark Twain Prize winners
Richard Pryor (1998)
Jonathan Winters (1999)
Carl Reiner (2000)
Whoopi Goldberg (2001)
Bob Newhart (2002)
Lily Tomlin (2003)
Lorne Michaels (2004)
Steve Martin (2005)
Neil Simon (2006)
Billy Crystal (2007)
George Carlin (2008)
Bill Cosby (2009)
Tina Fey (2010)
Will Ferrell (2011)
Ellen DeGeneres (2012)
Carol Burnett (2013)
Jay Leno (2014)
Eddie Murphy (2015)
Bill Murray (2016)
David Letterman (2017)
[show]
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National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress
1967–1979
Marjorie Rhodes (1967)
Billie Whitelaw (1968)
Siân Phillips / Delphine Seyrig (1969)
Lois Smith (1970)
Ellen Burstyn (1971)
Jeannie Berlin (1972)
Valentina Cortese (1973)
Bibi Andersson (1974)
Lily Tomlin (1975)
Jodie Foster (1976)
Ann Wedgeworth (1977)
Meryl Streep (1978)
Meryl Streep (1979)
1980–1999
Mary Steenburgen (1980)
Maureen Stapleton (1981)
Jessica Lange (1982)
Sandra Bernhard (1983)
Melanie Griffith (1984)
Anjelica Huston (1985)
Dianne Wiest (1986)
Kathy Baker (1987)
Mercedes Ruehl (1988)
Anjelica Huston (1989)
Annette Bening (1990)
Jane Horrocks (1991)
Judy Davis (1992)
Madeleine Stowe (1993)
Dianne Wiest (1994)
Joan Allen (1995)
Barbara Hershey (1996)
Julianne Moore (1997)
Judi Dench (1998)
Chloë Sevigny (1999)
2000–present
Elaine May (2000)
Helen Mirren (2001)
Patricia Clarkson (2002)
Patricia Clarkson (2003)
Virginia Madsen (2004)
Amy Adams (2005)
Meryl Streep (2006)
Cate Blanchett (2007)
Hanna Schygulla (2008)
Mo'Nique (2009)
Olivia Williams (2010)
Jessica Chastain (2011)
Amy Adams (2012)
Jennifer Lawrence (2013)
Patricia Arquette (2014)
Kristen Stewart (2015)
Michelle Williams (2016)
[show]
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New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress
1969–1980
Dyan Cannon (1969)
Karen Black (1970)
Ellen Burstyn (1971)
Jeannie Berlin (1972)
Valentina Cortese (1973)
Valerie Perrine (1974)
Lily Tomlin (1975)
Talia Shire (1976)
Sissy Spacek (1977)
Maureen Stapleton (1978)
Meryl Streep (1979)
Mary Steenburgen (1980)
1981–2000
Mona Washbourne (1981)
Jessica Lange (1982)
Linda Hunt (1983)
Christine Lahti (1984)
Anjelica Huston (1985)
Dianne Wiest (1986)
Vanessa Redgrave (1987)
Diane Venora (1988)
Lena Olin (1989)
Jennifer Jason Leigh (1990)
Judy Davis (1991)
Miranda Richardson (1992)
Gong Li (1993)
Dianne Wiest (1994)
Mira Sorvino (1995)
Courtney Love (1996)
Joan Cusack (1997)
Lisa Kudrow (1998)
Catherine Keener (1999)
Marcia Gay Harden (2000)
2001–present
Helen Mirren (2001)
Patricia Clarkson (2002)
Shohreh Aghdashloo (2003)
Virginia Madsen (2004)
Maria Bello (2005)
Jennifer Hudson (2006)
Amy Ryan (2007)
Penélope Cruz (2008)
Mo'Nique (2009)
Melissa Leo (2010)
Jessica Chastain (2011)
Sally Field (2012)
Jennifer Lawrence (2013)
Patricia Arquette (2014)
Kristen Stewart (2015)
Michelle Williams (2016)
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Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award
1962: Eddie Cantor
1963: Stan Laurel
1965: Bob Hope
1966: Barbara Stanwyck
1967: William Gargan
1968: James Stewart
1969: Edward G. Robinson
1970: Gregory Peck
1971: Charlton Heston
1972: Frank Sinatra
1973: Martha Raye
1974: Walter Pidgeon
1975: Rosalind Russell
1976: Pearl Bailey
1977: James Cagney
1978: Edgar Bergen
1979: Katharine Hepburn
1980: Leon Ames
1982: Danny Kaye
1983: Ralph Bellamy
1984: Iggie Wolfington
1985: Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
1986: Nanette Fabray
1987: Red Skelton
1988: Gene Kelly
1989: Jack Lemmon
1990: Brock Peters
1991: Burt Lancaster
1992: Audrey Hepburn
1993: Ricardo Montalbán
1994: George Burns
1995: Robert Redford
1996: Angela Lansbury
1997: Elizabeth Taylor
1998: Kirk Douglas
1999: Sidney Poitier
2000: Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee
2001: Ed Asner
2002: Clint Eastwood
2003: Karl Malden
2004: James Garner
2005: Shirley Temple
2006: Julie Andrews
2007: Charles Durning
2008: James Earl Jones
2009: Betty White
2010: Ernest Borgnine
2011: Mary Tyler Moore
2012: Dick Van Dyke
2013: Rita Moreno
2014: Debbie Reynolds
2015: Carol Burnett
2016: Lily Tomlin
2017: Morgan Freeman
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Silver Bear for Best Actress
Elsa Martinelli (1956)
Yvonne Mitchell (1957)
Anna Magnani (1958)
Shirley MacLaine (1959)
Juliette Mayniel (1960)
Anna Karina (1961)
Rita Gam / Viveca Lindfors (1962)
Bibi Andersson (1963)
Sachiko Hidari (1964)
Madhur Jaffrey (1965)
Lola Albright (1966)
Edith Evans (1967)
Stéphane Audran (1968)
Simone Signoret / Shirley MacLaine (1971)
Elizabeth Taylor (1972)
Kinuyo Tanaka (1975)
Jadwiga Barańska (1976)
Lily Tomlin (1977)
Gena Rowlands (1978)
Hanna Schygulla (1979)
Renate Krößner (1980)
Barbara Grabowska (1981)
Katrin Sass (1982)
Yevgeniya Glushenko (1983)
Inna Churikova (1984)
Jo Kennedy (1985)
Charlotte Valandrey / Marcélia Cartaxo (1986)
Ana Beatriz Nogueira (1987)
Holly Hunter (1988)
Isabelle Adjani (1989)
Victoria Abril (1991)
Maggie Cheung (1992)
Michelle Pfeiffer (1993)
Crissy Rock (1994)
Josephine Siao (1995)
Anouk Grinberg (1996)
Juliette Binoche (1997)
Fernanda Montenegro (1998)
Juliane Köhler (1999)
Bibiana Beglau (2000)
Kerry Fox (2001)
Halle Berry (2002)
Nicole Kidman / Julianne Moore / Meryl Streep (2003)
Charlize Theron / Catalina Sandino Moreno (2004)
Julia Jentsch (2005)
Sandra Hüller (2006)
Nina Hoss (2007)
Sally Hawkins (2008)
Birgit Minichmayr (2009)
Shinobu Terajima (2010)
Sareh Bayat / Sarina Farhadi / Leila Hatami / Kimia Hosseini (2011)
Rachel Mwanza (2012)
Paulina García (2013)
Haru Kuroki (2014)
Charlotte Rampling (2015)
Trine Dyrholm (2016)
Kim Min-hee (2017)
[show]
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TCA Career Achievement Award
Grant Tinker (1985)
Walter Cronkite (1986)
Hill Street Blues (1987)
David Brinkley (1988)
Lucille Ball (1989)
Jim Henson (1990)
Brandon Tartikoff (1991)
Johnny Carson (1992)
Bob Hope (1993)
Charles Kuralt (1994)
Ted Turner (1995)
Angela Lansbury (1996)
Fred Rogers (1997)
Roone Arledge (1998)
Norman Lear (1999)
Dick Van Dyke (2000)
Sid Caesar (2001)
Bill Cosby (2002)
Carl Reiner (2003)
Don Hewitt (2004)
Bob Newhart (2005)
Carol Burnett (2006)
Mary Tyler Moore (2007)
Lorne Michaels (2008)
Betty White (2009)
James Garner (2010)
Oprah Winfrey (2011)
David Letterman (2012)
Barbara Walters (2013)
James Burrows (2014)
James L. Brooks (2015)
Lily Tomlin (2016)
Ken Burns (2017)
[show]
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Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
Ingrid Bergman / Helen Hayes (1947)
Judith Anderson / Katharine Cornell / Jessica Tandy (1948)
Martita Hunt (1949)
Shirley Booth (1950)
Uta Hagen (1951)
Julie Harris (1952)
Shirley Booth (1953)
Audrey Hepburn (1954)
Nancy Kelly (1955)
Julie Harris (1956)
Margaret Leighton (1957)
Helen Hayes (1958)
Gertrude Berg (1959)
Anne Bancroft (1960)
Joan Plowright (1961)
Margaret Leighton (1962)
Uta Hagen (1963)
Sandy Dennis (1964)
Irene Worth (1965)
Rosemary Harris (1966)
Beryl Reid (1967)
Zoe Caldwell (1968)
Julie Harris (1969)
Tammy Grimes (1970)
Maureen Stapleton (1971)
Sada Thompson (1972)
Julie Harris (1973)
Colleen Dewhurst (1974)
Ellen Burstyn (1975)
Irene Worth (1976)
Julie Harris (1977)
Jessica Tandy (1978)
Constance Cummings / Carole Shelley (1979)
Phyllis Frelich (1980)
Jane Lapotaire (1981)
Zoe Caldwell (1982)
Jessica Tandy (1983)
Glenn Close (1984)
Stockard Channing (1985)
Lily Tomlin (1986)
Linda Lavin (1987)
Joan Allen (1988)
Pauline Collins (1989)
Maggie Smith (1990)
Mercedes Ruehl (1991)
Glenn Close (1992)
Madeline Kahn (1993)
Diana Rigg (1994)
Cherry Jones (1995)
Zoe Caldwell (1996)
Janet McTeer (1997)
Marie Mullen (1998)
Judi Dench (1999)
Jennifer Ehle (2000)
Mary-Louise Parker (2001)
Lindsay Duncan (2002)
Vanessa Redgrave (2003)
Phylicia Rashad (2004)
Cherry Jones (2005)
Cynthia Nixon (2006)
Julie White (2007)
Deanna Dunagan (2008)
Marcia Gay Harden (2009)
Viola Davis (2010)
Frances McDormand (2011)
Nina Arianda (2012)
Cicely Tyson (2013)
Audra McDonald (2014)
Helen Mirren (2015)
Jessica Lange (2016)
Laurie Metcalf (2017)
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VIAF: 72193701
LCCN: n85242403
ISNI: 0000 0001 1447 6892
GND: 118949918
SUDOC: 084149396
BNF: cb14040365z (data)
MusicBrainz: 9f3abc35-a308-430d-833a-cb793eeec95e
BNE: XX1392038
IATH: w6r86c6x
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Navajo music
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Navajo music is music made by Navajos, mostly hailing from the Four Corners region of the Southwestern United States and the territory of the Navajo Nation. While it traditionally takes the shape of ceremonial chants and echoes themes found in Diné Bahaneʼ, contemporary Navajo music includes a wide range of genres, ranging from country music to rock and rap, performed in both English and Navajo.
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1 Traditional
2 Shoegame Songs
3 Children's Songs
4 Peyote songs
5 Contemporary popular
6 Sources
7 External links
Traditional[edit]
Traditional Navajo music is always vocal, with most instruments, which include drums, drumsticks, rattles, rasp, flute, whistle, and bullroarer, being used to accompany singing of specific types of song (Frisbie and McAllester 1992). In 1982, there were over 1,000 Hataałii, or Singers, otherwise known as 'Medicine People', qualified to perform one or more of thirty ceremonials and countless prayer rituals (Frisbie and Tso n.d.) which restore hózhǫ́ which holds the semantic field of 'harmonious condition' and 'beauty', good health, serenity, and balance.
These songs are the most sacred holy songs, the "complex and comprehensive" spiritual literature of the Navajo, may be considered classical music (McAllester and Mitchell 1983), while all other songs, including personal, patriotic, daily work, recreation, jokes, and less sacred ceremonial songs, may be considered popular music. The "popular" side is characterized by public performance while the holy songs are preserved of their sacredness by reserving it only for ceremonies (and thus not featured on the recording listed at bottom). (ibid)
Members of the Navajo Song & Dance singing group "Cross Canyon Echoes" sing for a charity event in Window Rock, Arizona.
The longest ceremonies may last up to ten days and nights while performing rituals that restore the balance between good and evil, or positive and negative forces. The hataałii, aided by sandpaintings or masked yéʼii bicheii, as well as numerous other sacred tools used for healing, chant the sacred songs to call upon the Navajo gods and natural forces to restore the person to harmony and balance within the context of the world forces. In ceremonies involving sandpaintings, the person to be supernaturally assisted, the patient, becomes the protagonist, identifying with the gods of the Diné Creation Stories, and at one point becomes part of the Story Cycle by sitting on a sandpainting with iconography pertaining to the specific story and deities. (McAllester 1981-1982)
The lyrics, which may last over an hour and are usually sung in groups, contain narrative epics including the beginning of the world, phenomenology, morality, and other lessons. Longer songs are divided into two or four balanced parts and feature an alternation of chantlike verses and buoyant melodically active choruses concluded by a refrain in the style and including lyrics of the chorus. Lyrics, songs, groups, and topics include cyclic: Changing Woman, an immortal figure in the Navajo traditions, is born in the spring, grows to adolescence in the summer, becomes an adult in the autumn, and then an old lady in the winter, repeating the life cycles over and over. Her sons, the Hero Twins, Monster Slayer and Born-for-the-Water, are also sung about, for they rid the world of giants and evil monsters. Stories such as these are spoken of during these sacred ceremonies.
The "popular" music resembles the highly active melodic motion of the choruses, featuring wide intervallic leaps and melodic range usually an octave to octave and a half. Structurally, the songs are created from the complex repetition, division, and combinations of most often no more than four or five phrases, with short songs often immediately following each other for continuity as needed in work songs. Their lyrics are mostly vocables, with certain vocables specific to genres, but may contain short humorous or satirical texts. (ibid)
Shoegame Songs[edit]
Residents of Fort Defiance, Arizona play a round of Navajo Shoegame.
Long ago when the animals roamed the earth they came together to play Késhjééʼ, or the Navajo moccasin game. Yéʼiitsoh (Giant) and Owl discussed putting a game together and they came up with the Navajo Shoegame. There is a story that goes with this, however it remains only to be heard orally by a Diné. Today throughout the Navajo Nation, many families play the Navajo Shoegame. At times, local communities play against each other during the winter season. There are also many prominent Navajo Shoegame singers throughout the Navajo Nation. Notably the Nez Family of Hunter's Point, Arizona and Pinedale, New Mexico, who are very well known for their singing and playing of the game. Leo Nez Sr. and his son Titus Jay Nez who come from the Nez family are very well known for their singing of Shoegame songs and attendance of Shoegames throughout the Navajo Nation. Other notable members include Jimmy Cody, and Sammie Largo.
Children's Songs[edit]
Navajo children's songs are usually about animals, such as pets and livestock. Some songs are about family members, and about chores, games, and other activities as well. It usually includes anything in a child's daily life. A child may learn songs from an early age from the mother. As a baby, if the child cries, the mother will sing to it while it's tied in the cradleboard. Navajo songs are rhythmic, and therefore soothing to a baby. Thus, songs are a major part of Navajo culture.
It may have been a kind of beginner's course in learning the songs and prayers for self-protection from bad things, skinwalkers, and other evil figures in Navajo traditions. Blessings, such as when one does with corn pollen in the early morning, may be learned as well.
In children's songs, a short chant usually starts off the song, followed by at least one stanza of lyrics, and finishing up with the same chant. All traditional songs include chants, and are not made up solely of lyrics. There are specific chants for some types of songs as well. Contemporary children's songs, however, such as Christmas songs and Navajo versions of nursery rhymes, may have lyrics only. Today, both types of songs may be taught in elementary schools on the reservation, depending on the knowledge and ability of the particular teacher.
In earlier times, Navajo children may have sung songs like these to themselves while sheepherding, to pass the time. Sheep were, and still are, a part of Navajo life. Back then, giving a child custody of the entire herd was a way to teach them leadership and responsibility, for one day they would probably own a herd of their own. A child, idle while the sheep grazed, may sing to pass the time.
Peyote songs[edit]
Peyote songs are a form of Native American music, now most often performed as part of the Native American Church, which came to the northern part of the Navajo Nation around 1936. They are typically accompanied by a rattle and water drum, and are used in a ceremonial aspect during the sacramental taking of peyote. Peyote songs share characteristics of Apache music and Plains-Pueblo music. (Nettl 1956, p. 114)
In recent years, a modernized version of peyote songs have been popularized by Verdell Primeaux, a Sioux, and Johnny Mike, a Navajo.
Contemporary popular[edit]
Travis Friday, lead guitarist, lead vocalist and the songwriter for the Navajo country band "Stateline."
The Navajo music scene is perhaps one of the strongest in native music today. In the past, Navajo musicians were corraled into maintaining the status quo of traditional music, chants and/or flute compositions. Today, Navajo bands span the genres of punk, metal, hardcore, hip hop, blues, rock, death metal, black metal, stoner rock, country, and even traditional. Success of bands like Blackfire, Ethnic De Generation, Downplay, Mother Earth Blues Band, Aces Wild, Tribal Live, The Plateros and other musicians have reignited an interest in music with the younger Navajo generations. Perhaps the best synthesis of tradition and contemporary is found in the musical marriage of Tribe II Entertainment, a rap duo from Arizona, Mistic, Rollin, Lil' Spade and Shade are truly right now, the only Native American rappers who can rap entirely in their native tongue. Their popularity and bilingual ability is yet another look at the prolific nature of the Navajo music scene.
Sources[edit]
Liner notes: Navajo Songs (1992), recorded by Laura Boulton in 1933 and 1940, annotated by Charlotte J. Frisbie and David McAllester. Smithsonian Folkways: SF 40403.
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