The New York Post reports that folk chanteuse Joni Mitchell, one of music's most influential and innovative performers, is racing the clock to find the daughter she gave up for adoption 31 years ago.
The smoky voiced Mitchell is quoted as saying that she delivered her daughter--whom she named Kelly--in Toronto in 1965. The baby was born out of wedlock--Mitchell married fellow Canadian folkie Chuck Mitchell later that year--shortly after the singer dropped out of art school.
The 53-year-old Mitchell, a member of both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, said she has some pressing reasons to find her child. Mitchell, who didn't tell her folks about the birth until years later, wants her now elderly parents to have a chance to meet their granddaughter.
Mitchell also hopes to track down her daughter, who would be 31 this year, to warn her of potential health threats. At age 9, Mitchell was stricken with polio and doctors told her she would never walk again. Despite overcoming the childhood affliction, Mitchell now suffers from a related neurological disorder called postpolio syndrome.
But so far her search is fruitless. "I've been blocked so far by the people who have the (adoption) papers," Mitchell told the Post.
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