Margarita Mimi Baez Fariña

(April 30, 1945 – July 18, 2001)

American singer and musician, the founder of the non-profit concert organization, "Bread and Roses." She is the sister of Joan Baez, a close friend of Bob Dylan and a recording artist with her husband, Richard, popular in the '60s folk music. Farina was diagnosed with lung cancer in December 1998. She continued with plans for the gala 25th anniversary celebration for Bread and Roses at San Francisco's War Memorial Opera House in March 2000, where she appeared wearing a turban to hide her hair loss from chemotherapy treatments. She made jokes about not having bad hair days any longer. She died of cancer early morning, 6/18/2001 at her Mill Valley home, CA, at age 56.