Pete Seeger

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Born:
May 3, 1919, he's 93 and American.
Birthname:
Peter Seeger.
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US-American folk singer.
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An Artist with 121 releases, a member of 2 groups, and credited 40 times on others' music. 21 collaborations and 4 musical relatives.

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Peter "Pete" Seeger (born May 3, 1919) is an American folk singer and an iconic figure in the mid-20th century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably the 1950 recording of Leadbelly's "Goodnight, Irene", which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. Members of The Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, he re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, and for environmental causes.

As a song writer, he is best known as the author or co-author of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", "If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)" (composed with Lee Hays of The Weavers), and "Turn, Turn, Turn!", which have been recorded by many artists both in and outside the folk revival movement and are still sung throughout the world. "Flowers" was a hit recording for The Kingston Trio (1962), Marlene Dietrich, who recorded it in English, German and French (1962), and Johnny Rivers (1965). "If I Had a Hammer" was a hit for Peter, Paul & Mary (1962) and Trini Lopez (1963), while The Byrds popularized "Turn, Turn, Turn!" in the mid-1960s, as did Judy Collins in 1964. Seeger was one of the folksingers most responsible for popularizing the spiritual "We Shall Overcome" (also recorded by Joan Baez and many other singer-activists) that became the acknowledged anthem of the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement, soon after folk singer and activist Guy Carawan introduced it at the founding meeting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960.

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Genres

Folk, Protest Song, Children's. Vote on Genres

Discography

192 releases – 121 under his own name, 31 in other groups and 40 credits on others' music Edit
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Pete Seeger

Mar, 21 2009

American folk legend and prominent social activist Pete Seeger will turn 90 this year, and to celebrate the occasion there will be a series of concerts including a special gig in Madison Square Gardens on May 3, his birthday. A who’s who of respected musicians -- including Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez and Emmylou Harris -- will gather to raise funds and awareness for Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, the environmental organization which was founded by Seeger 40 years ago. Tickets for 'The Clearwater Concert: Creating the Next Generation of Environmental Leaders' go on sale to the general public on March 30. For those hoping to hear from the birthday boy himself, make sure to buy tickets for the two-day Clearwater Festival in June where he is expected to perform alongside his grandson, Tao Rodriguez-Seeger, an artist with whom he frequently collaborates.

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