The great folk singer Pete Seeger dies
The most famous folk singer Pete Seeger from New York (United States) closed his eyes on Monday (27th January 2014). He was one of the famous Song Writer, musician, activist and a good Television Host who was born on 3rd May in the year 1919 in Manhattan of New York City. He was also famous for his spiritual song which became the American Civil Rights Movement anthem in the year 1960 "We shall overcome" in Christian schools this song was mostly sung by the students as their school anthem.
Mr. Pete Seeger was of 94 year who died on Monday night at the Presbyterian hospital which is in New York. He was admitted to hospital six days before his death, he died peacefully in his sleep on Monday night. After his death, his grandson Kitama Cahill Jackson recalled the latest memory of his grandpa; when he found Mr. Seeger chopping wood 10 days back. He lived a great life soon from beginning till the end surrounded by a lovely family, as he belong to an artistic family and the background of his family was totally inclined towards music and were well known as activists too as he was an active member of Un American Activities Committee in the year 1955.
He was totally boycotted by the other leftist politics because of which he was blacklisted from the commercial television and was totally banned for the period of ten years then, which was the peak period of his career. Still, he managed to make a balance between his career and his social front where he got the credit for popularizing the most famous and energy boosting song which had filled our lives with a lot of positivity and which helped us in strengthening our self the song which is all about motivation which start with the first word WE.. "We shall Overcome", which he reprinted in his publication later saying it's a "People Song" in the year 1948.
Mr. Seeger also said that his contribution to the Civil Right Movement Anthem was just a single word where "will" was changed as "shall" because as described by him the latter makes the mouth open better. In balancing his musical career with the political upfront where he used to fight for the general causes which ranged from the cleanup of the Hudson River. Seeger also said in that period that he left the Communist party around 1950 and later claimed for it. But the association stubbornly didn't allow him to be the part of it then.
After his name got involved in the Un- American Activities, he was constantly forced to mention where he had sung for the communists. And in return Seeger bluntly said that He loved his country a lot and had great respect for the nation it was not the matter of his song but if its about his opinion he also had an individual religious and philosophical views, his opinions were different but this didn't mean he wasn't an American.
He was also seen in the movies named as "To Hear My Banjo Play" in the year 1946 and "Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon" in the year 1970. Mr. Seeger got fame being a member of The Weavers, the Quartet formed in 1948 as well as for his hits like such as Goodnight Irene. The reunion concert of Mr. Seeger's of the original Weavers in 1980 was filmed as a documentary then which was given the title as "Wasn't that a time".
In the year 1997 he won Grammy award for his traditional folk album "Pete". Recently Mr. Seeger was also nominated for Grammy Award in the category of best spoken Word which was won by Stephen Colbert.
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