Buffy Sainte-Marie on "To Tell the Truth" (January 24, 1966) 

Paddymow1. It sure does! You’ve got that one correct.

Yep. Top shelf irony.

It's very sad. It's obvious she has a deep respect for native culture but she should not have created a false identity. It's like Hilaria Baldwin.

Oh my gosh, what a show for her to be on!

@@carolfraz588 and Elizabeth Warren and Rachel Dolezal and Michelle Latimer. Why do leftist women do this to themselves ?

Weird too bc she also admits being from Massachusetts & not Saskatchewan…that floored me

The most ironic use of her music was when Nell Carter and Andy Gibb sang “Up Where We Belong” on *Gimme A Break!* That show’s title meant a mouthful in that episode!

😂

I know. Beautiful song.

The recording of that song on her record Is even better-I think the song was abbreviated here. Still, WHY did she lie?

She’s talented so why lie?

​@@cck817I agree. I love that song.

OMG thank you! I have never been able to listen to Buffy. Not just that she is usually off key but also the horrible goat vibrato. I thought her fans must really all be tone deaf! Dentist drill is the perfect analogy (and the patient is a goat 😆)

@@Arewal851 All of a sudden a C-minor is not a C-minor anymore. Magic!

As a studio singer I tried hard to appreciate her writing skill the drilling never allowed my full respect. Now I highly doubt she wrote anything. Her life was 100% mind control MK Ultra coordination.

Lol, kind of a yoko thing going on there. Talk about selling your soul, she's a special kind of low life

Fraud

Lol good one 😅

So what and so what?

Her CON-fidence, if you watch any of her interviews seems a bit more like Grandiose NPD.

Yeah, she sure can bend the truth!

Yes, she is such an inspiration to the Italian-American community that she belongs to.

​@Attmay That she rebuked and denied and blackmailed her own brother. She is a disgrace to both the Italian American and the indigenous community.

How do you know that her brother didn't molest her? He might have, and that has nothing to do with her ancestry. That she wrote that letter to him may have been her traumatized way of calling him out for sexual abuse, and that abuse may have a lot to do with her wanting to be from an entirely different family and ancestry than she was from. While I don't know that, I am sure you don't know if she was molested or not.@@TheeLynnChase

Fraud

Yes and Dr.Todd Grande just did a video on her and said she was a pioneer in redefining reality! 😆

B.S. Marie

@@Attmay Beverly Bluffy Santa Maria

beautiful comment

Buffy is a Goddess. Capital G.

Sounds good but none of those words actually mean anything.

A terse, but wholly accurate statement. Just perfect!

@@TheMysteryMachine Goddess describes her well!

I visited his grave at Hillside cemetery. He is one of the few non-Jewish people buried there because of his late-in-life marriage to Suzanne Pleshette who is buried next to him.

Very true! Whatever her ancestry, she’s a good singer. Sadly, however, she will now be known as the singer who masqueraded as somebody she was not for 60+ years.

Even Al Jolson washed off his blackface.

@@Attmay When I first heard the report about Buffy Sainte Marie, and her ancestral claims, I was thinking exactly the same thing. I am in my mid-60s. Being that age, I am (of course) a fan of music from the era of Buffy Sainte-Marie and all the great 1960s and 1970s pop, folk, and rock music. But my dad was a big fan of the 1930s big bands (Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, etc.), while Al Jolson and Bing Crosby were his favorite singers. I enjoyed listening to that music, and, indeed, do still listen to it every so often on the various online music services. I don’t think Buffy Sainte Marie totally darkened her face. Maybe she did use some darkening makeup, but I’ve had several Italian American friends, especially female, with dark enough features that they could indeed have passed themselves off as Native American/ First Nations to someone like me who is not Native American/ First Nations. I would love to hear Buffy’s real story: maybe in the early years assumptions were made that Buffy was Native American/First Nations, and she didn’t do anything to correct it. As the CBC report indicated, several of her family members had written to newspapers, trying to correct it, but the newspapers ignored it. My speculation (and it is purely speculation on my part) is that in Buffy Sainte Marie’s earlyyears of being a public figure, or somewhere along the line, someone told her she looked Native American/ First Nations. So she ran with it, became technically adopted by a tribe, or at least a family within a tribe (“community”), and has clung to that all these years. Al Jolson, as you correctly alluded to, did deliberately perform in black face. Allowing for the fact that Buffy Sainte Marie’s Italian ancestry may have made her darker than the average white person, I am not going to say that she “did an Al Jolson.” At the moment, that hasn’t come out yet! I must admit after I first watched the CBC Fifth Estate report here on RU-vid, I immediately said to myself something like Al Jolson did it in the 1920s and now it is catching up with Buffy Sainte Marie in the 2020s. The only pass I’m giving her is that from looking at her hands, they appear to be darker than the average white person, again explainable with Italian American heritage. Al Jolson’s hands were obviously white, or he was wearing gloves, so you could not tell. I believe that Al Jolson said that he was using black face in honor of (and out of respect for) the black people- something like that. Maybe he felt it, but, to me, it seemed very flimsy. Al Jolson either mostly had no standing in the black community. Or the black community had a feeling of disdain (or even contempt) towards him. Eddie Cantor, another American white Jewish performer in the 1930s also used black face. The problem and the blessing for Buffy Sainte Marie is that she is or was held in such high regard by the Native American/ First Nations community. Perhaps if she were to “come clean”, I get the feeling that she would probably say something like she had such high regard for the Native American/First Nations community. As for Al Jolson, I realize that some Middle Eastern people of Jewish ancestry are dark. But he was of Russian/Soviet extraction, and definitely was white. A little later in the same week that I posted this, I am doing some slight proofreading (mostly grammar and context corrections and clarifications). I have not made any changes to the focus of what I wrote previously.

@@SW2799 Buffy Sainte-Marie was so pretty here ❤

She's red facing😂 fraud

lol she can't sing.

not really. Unless you admire liars and grifters. And her voice is terrible.

Its actually a sign of a singer that can't sing. "Caprino, which means 'goat-like' or 'little goat' in Italian, is a term used to describe a rapidly beating vibrato that sounds like a trill or like the bleating of a goat. It occurs when a vibrato is poorly executed, and a tremolo-like pulsation on only one note results, like the reiteration of a single pitch". She usually sings off key as well. Without the fake indigenous identity she never would have made it as a singer.

It always irritated me.

​@@Arewal851 I didn't know the term "caprino", I always thought the vibrato was a sign of greater skill, because I had to work so hard to develop one. My best skill is holding a note longer than the average person because I'd learned to swim even before I learned to walk so breath control was the easiest part. I didn't know there was a term for the trill. . .

@@zxyatiywariii8 Its only the term for the (bad) vibrato that sounds like a goat. It is easy to do and is a sign of a singer who can't do a proper one. Buffy admits the she flunked every music class she ever took and also says that her enormous talent had her destined to be as famous as Michael Jackson and Madonna. Narcissists are like that. They believe they are better than everyone and never think they need to put in any effort.

Omg yessss

I always thought her voice was simply dreadful.

So this is what a fallen angel sounds like as she is falling from heaven to hell.

@@AttmayNext time you post something think about it. My 92 year old Mothers favorite expression from the Bible is, "Treat people the way you wish to be treated"-

She is from Massachusetts, turns out ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eMsqCWNCUc4.html

Pinocchio also had a conscience. They are of the same tribe.

Born in Stoneham MA, she had everything except a conscious.

"and most of all a conscience" 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

Lol.

Do people love liars? I felt disgusted when I learned about her fraud.

@@MelissasMusic-tk2zr many do, as it seems. Reality is hard to swallow sometimes. Besides, lies may give some comfort to a few. Many, many reasons…

@@MelissasMusic-tk2zr Cant pretend it never happened?

YES, gosh are you ever right!

Me to! Buffy Sainte-Marie was so pretty here ❤

Yeah, it is amazing people bought into this racist hoax for so long.

No

I agree. Buffy Sainte-Marie was so pretty here ❤

Because she claimed not to know when she was born?

She's not a Native American, she's white, says so on her birth certificate.

She's a beautiful Italian woman.

Thank you both. I just saw the news. I can’t believe i got fooled again! First that Mexican-American Sacheen Littlefeather, now this Italian American Buffy tsk tsk

The public were so used to obvious fakes from movies and TV shows that somebody who put more effort into such chicanery could have easily fooled them and did.

I don't think the panel asked where they were born, they asked where they were from.

@SunnyDaze-uq8ed lick me.

St. Marie was *not* born in Canada, no matter what her Wiki says. Her birth certificate says Massachusetts.

@@retriever19golden55 You are right, and Wikipedia does have her as being born in Massachusetts "Buffy Sainte-Marie was born at the New England Sanitarium and Hospital in Stoneham, Massachusetts" (Wikipedia)

@@retriever19golden55 How really cares where she is from. Buffy Sainte-Marie was so pretty here ❤

Its because it sounds like other songs. Not long now before we discover she plagiarized the songs along with her identity.

@@Arewal851 Did she really?? Do you have a source on the plagiarism?

The woman from Mexico only has a Spanish last name, her first name seems to be Indigenous

Some natives in the southern US have Spanish names, just as some natives in Canada have French names. There were instances of intermarriage since contact.

@@fairieale She was from New Mexico, and she said that she was Apache.

Well, now you've probably found out that she's a huge liar.

@@Mousehansen It doesn´t matter..!! Buffy Sainte-Marie was so pretty here ❤

Wow, so she was even famous in the Soviet Union?

@@zxyatiywariii8 yes

Интересно! Но я рада что вы знаете теперь.

Her family changed their name, not her.

@@ValleyoftheRogue You are missing my point…”Beverley” to “Buffy”. I realize her family changed their surname due to anti-Italian sentiment back in the 50s.

You don't know the parents didn't call her "Buffy" as a nickname in childhood. And I doubt you ever will know it because everything that comes out of her mouth is a lie.

​@@RosePetal17 Buffy was a common nickname for Elizabeth in the mid twentieth century (and was probably in her case used as a pet name for Beverly and seems to predate her career as a folk singer). e.g. The old sitcom Family Affair had a little girl named Buffy, and later in the 90's came the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It has no Indigenous/First Nation connotations. Both her first name and surname are totally unrelated to the allegations against her.

@@poemaboutthemanfromnantucket I know that “Buffy” is a nickname, and remember Buffy on Family Affair:)

Probably she started a Schtick to get press then by the time she became famous she couldn’t stop it. U have to agree very talented musician. At least that’s not fake.

She told as much truth as you are entitled to.

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