Buffy Sainte-Marie - Cod'ine

Buffy Sainte-Marie - Cod'ine Buffy Sainte-Marie was born February 20, 1941 on the Piapot Cree Indian reserve in the Qu'Appelle valley, Saskatchewan, Canada. She is a singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, pacifist, educator, social activist, and 1963, recovering from a throat infection Sainte-Marie became addicted to codeine and recovering from the experience became the basis of her song “Cod'ine“, later covered by Donovan, The Charlatans, & the Quicksilver Messenger Serv