Pete Seeger
Folk music, Musical Artist
1919 –
Who is Pete Seeger?
Peter "Pete" Seeger is an American folk singer. 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 their recording of Lead Belly'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, counterculture and 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", 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; Marlene Dietrich, who recorded it in English, German and French; and Johnny Rivers. "If I Had a Hammer" was a hit for Peter, Paul & Mary and Trini Lopez, while The Byrds popularized "Turn, Turn, Turn!" in the mid-1960s, as did Judy Collins in 1964, and The Seekers in 1966.
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- Born
- May 3, 1919
Patterson - Also known as
- Peter Seeger
- The Weavers
- Peter "Pete" Seeger
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Toshi Seeger
(1943/07/20 - 2013/07/09)
- Toshi Seeger
- Children
- Religion
- Unitarian Universalism
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard University
- Avon Old Farms
- Lived in
- New York City
- Manhattan
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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