Albums by Pete Seeger
ALBUMThink Globally Sing LocallyPete Seeger
ALBUMThe Bottom Line Archive Series: In Their Own Words with Vin ScelsaPete Seeger
ALBUMA More Perfect UnionPete Seeger & Lorre Wyatt
ALBUMTomorrow's ChildrenPete Seeger
ALBUMAt 89Pete Seeger
ALBUMSeeds: the Songs of Pete Seeger, Vol. 3Pete Seeger
ALBUMAmerican Folk, Game & Activity Songs for ChildrenPete Seeger
ALBUMDarling Corey / Goofing-Off SuitePete Seeger
ALBUMPete Seeger's Family ConcertPete Seeger
ALBUMTraditional Christmas CarolsPete Seeger
Pete Seeger's Popular Music Videos
Down By The Riverside (The Speek)
Pete Seeger
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (The Speek)
Pete Seeger
Artist Playlists
Pete Seeger Essentials
This American icon always fought for the underdog.
Pete Seeger: The Songwriters
Hear the songs of a great American folk hero as delivered by his disciples.
Inspired by Pete Seeger
He taught generations of songwriters to imagine a better world.
Pete Seeger: Deep Cuts
Gifts from the annals of the folkie's impressive catalog.
Artist Biography
Singer/songwriter Pete Seeger was both a massive cultural and political figure in America and one of the most important U.S. folk artists ever. Born in 1919 in New York City to a musicologist father and violinist mother, Seeger was so captivated by the banjo in his teens that it turned him forever toward folk music. A humanist, progressive, and activist from an early age, Seeger cofounded the politically minded group The Almanac Singers in the early ’40s with Millard Lampell and folk icons Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston. In 1950, Seeger started the similarly inclined quartet The Weavers, who became hugely popular with songs like the Seeger-penned “If I Had a Hammer” but were waylaid by McCarthyist blacklisting in 1953. From the late ’50s through the ’60s, Seeger was a driving force in the folk revival as a solo artist with compositions like “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)” (later made famous by The Byrds). He continued working tirelessly to spread his beliefs through music and activism until his death in 2014 at the age of 94.
Hometown
New York, NY, United States
Genre
Singer/Songwriter