Interview: Activist and Musician Buffy Sainte-Marie on Her New Album and Reading Her FBI File

You might know Buffy Sainte-Marie from her song “Universal Soldier,” her stint on Sesame Street, or songs she cowrote or wrote that became hits for others, like “Up Where We Belong” and “Until It’s Time for You to Go.” But she’s far from a folkie gently strumming on guitar – she was one of the first people to use synthesizers, writing an album that used an early model called a Buchla – or a children’s educational figure.