Who is Pete Seeger?

Pete Seeger is an American folk singer, song writer, political activist and Banjo player, named Peter R. Seeger. Pete Seeger was born in Patterson, New York on May 3, 1919, son of musicologist Charles Seeger and violinist Constance Seeger, who both taught in Juilliard. In addition, the well -known composer Pete Seeger's stepmother Ruth Crawford was.

After planning to become a painter, Seeger's first opportunity to hear the five-sear Banjo was the catalyst of his musical career. After two years at Harvard University as a university university body, he left to wander around the southern United States with musicologist Alan Lomax, collecting field recordings of folk songs. He also wrote songs and instructional material for Five-String Banjo and twelve chain of guitar and worked on the preservation of the folk heritage of the nation and also to draw attention to political and ecological issues.

The most famous songs

Pete Seeger include a combination of his own work, cooperation and envelope, especially Weavers' Recordings of Leadbelly "Goodnight, Irene", Woody Guthrie "So long, was good," with Jose Marti, "WHE WHERE The Flowers, as well as "All The Flowers", as well as "All The Flowels", as well as "All the Flowers", as well as "WHE WHE ALL THE FLOWELS", as well as "Hickerson," if I had a hammer "with Lee Hays:" Turn, turn, turn "based on Ecclesiastes and" overcome ". Many times his cooperation is attributed only to him, but that is a mistake.

Pete Seeger songs have been recorded by many artists, including The Byrds, Judy Collins, nor Difranco, Indigo Girls, The Kingston Trio, Odetta, Peter, Paul and Mary, Bonnie Raitt and Bruce Springsteen. Seeger won Grammy for the best traditional folk album from 1996 for the album Pete and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in1993. In 1994 it was introduced in 1994 to the Hall of Fame of Rock and Roll in 1996.