WEBEarly and personal life. Baez was born in the Staten Island borough of New York City on January 9, 1941. [13] Her grandfather, Alberto Baez, left the Catholic Church to become a Methodist minister and moved to the U.S. when her father was two years old. Her father, Albert Baez (1912–2007), was born in Puebla, Mexico, [14] and grew up in ...