Buffy Sainte-Marie
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Buffy Sainte-Marie is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and social activist.
Sainte-Marie in 2015
Sainte-Marie performing in the Netherlands in the Grand Gala du Disque Populaire 1968
Sainte-Marie in 1970
Sainte-Marie playing the Peterborough Summer Festival of Lights on June 24, 2009
Up Where We Belong
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"Up Where We Belong" is a song written by Jack Nitzsche, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Will Jennings that was recorded by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes for the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman. Warnes w
Buffy Sainte-Marie
…United States and Canada. She won recognition, awards, and honors for her music as well as her work in education and social activism. In 1983, her song "Up Where We Belong", for An Officer and a Gentleman, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 55th Academy Awards. The song also won the Golden Globe Award for…
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Director Taylor Hackford was not given the budget for a new song to be produced for An Officer and a Gentleman.
Joe Cocker strayed from his rock/blues roots in recording "Up Where We Belong".