Claudine Longet, chanteuse and actress whose career ended when she shot her lover
(Link via Ed Driscoll @ Instapundit.) I haven’t listened to her much recently–I find her vocals a bit breathy and timid for my taste. I did see one of her records at the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library earlier this month, but I didn’t buy it. And I know I’ve read up on her story once or twice and I’ve been surprised by it each time. Probably I’ll remember it now.
I got one of her records in in 2025—In My Way. Too folky for my taste. Seems I’d read about this controversy then when looking her up on the Internet. I guess this is just news now because of the university’s action. I clicked through on the headline, “Oscar-winning folk singer stripped of honorary degree over Indigenous ancestry claims”, where of course did not name her because nobody knows who she is in 2026. Nobody except me, maybe, who has far more folk music in his record library than he listens to. Mostly because of two factors: 1) I got a lot from the record libraries of my mother-in-law and sainted mother and 2) because so many of them feature pretty women on the cover, Buffy Sainte-Marie being in the latter category.
UPDATE: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit covered this story this afternoon, after I posted this. Hopefully, he’s just also tuned into the folk scene, man, and did not base his post on my trackback without attribution.
