Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, Seeger also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of the Weavers, 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 …

Pete Seeger (Patterson , 3 mei 1919 – New York, 27 januari 2014) was een Amerikaans folkzanger, gitarist en activist. Biografie. Zijn vader, Charles Louis Seeger, was muziekleraar aan de University of California in Berkeley, tot hij in 1918 vanwege zijn pacifisme ...

Pete Seeger war der Sohn des pazifistischen, politisch engagierten Musikwissenschaftlers und Komponisten Charles Seeger und der Konzertgeigerin und Geigenlehrerin Constance de Clyver Edson (1886–1975). Er widmete sich nach einem abgebrochenen Soziologiestudium an der Harvard-Universität der Sammlung und Katalogisierung von traditionellen Spirituals, Gospels, …

The discography of Pete Seeger, an American folk singer, consists of 52 studio albums, 23 compilation albums, 22 live albums, and 31 singles.Seeger's musical career started in 1940 when he joined The Almanac Singers. He stayed with the group for two years until he was drafted into the Army to fight in the Second World War. After the end of World War II in 1945, Seeger …

Peter Seeger, più noto come Pete Seeger (New York, 3 maggio 1919 – New York, 27 gennaio 2014), è stato un cantautore e compositore statunitense di musica folk.. È assieme a Woody Guthrie (con cui ha collaborato e cantato assieme fin dagli anni quaranta) e Bob Dylan, fra i più conosciuti folk-singer statunitensi.. Attivista politico della sinistra americana e uno dei massimi …

Seeger's father was Charles Seeger (1886–1979), a folklorist and musicologist; her mother was Seeger's second wife, Ruth Porter Crawford (1901–1953), a modernist composer who was the first woman to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship. One of her brothers was Mike Seeger, and Pete Seeger was her half-brother. Poet Alan Seeger was her uncle. One of her first recordings …

Biographie Enfance et formation. Pete Seeger est né en 1919 à New York, dans une famille de musicologues de gauche.Par ses deux parents, il appartient à de très vieilles familles américaines, d'origine puritaine [1].Ses parents l'initient très jeune à la musique, et il accompagne souvent son père à l'ukulele puis au banjo, notamment dans les festivals de « square dance » …

Grossman accepted and began working with Wein to book talent and organize the weekend. Pete Seeger was also involved with the founding of the festival. The inaugural festival, held at Freebody Park, included Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, the Kingston Trio, John Jacob Niles, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Odetta, The New Lost City Ramblers, and more.

Charles Henry Christian (July 29, 1916 – March 2, 1942) was an American swing and jazz guitarist.. Christian was an important early performer on the electric guitar and a key figure in the development of bebop and cool jazz.He gained national exposure as a member of the Benny Goodman Sextet and Orchestra from August 1939 to June 1941. His single-string technique, …

"Little Boxes" is a song written and composed by Malvina Reynolds in 1962, which became a hit for her friend Pete Seeger in 1963, when he released his cover version. The song is a social satire about the development of suburbia, and associated conformist middle-class attitudes. It mocks suburban tract housing as "little boxes" of different colors "all made out of ticky-tacky", …