Pete Seeger, singer, folk-song collector and songwriter who'd spearheaded an American folk revival and spent a long career giving impetus to folk music as an important heritage and a catalyst for social change, passed into the mist of time today at the New York - Presbyterian hospital. He was all of 94 yrs and had died of natural causes.
He'd sung for the labour movement in the '40s and the '50s, for civil rights marches and anti-Vietnam war rallies in the '60s and for environmental and antiwar causes during the '70s and beyond.
"We shall overcome..." which he'd adopted from the old spirituals went on to become a civil rights anthem. We, Indians, are familiar with its desi version, "Hum honge kaamyaab....."
I've been mesmerised with the lyrics and not to forget the peppy energy that I've - always and without fail - derived from hearing this number. As of now, while I punch in these thoughts of mine, the number's playing in the background!
RIP, Pete Seeger. My prayers. You shall continue to live through your music for the years to come.
Tailpiece.
It's an unusually hectic day but I was satisfied that everything, that was planned, could be achieved in the end though at one time I'd almost given up on one serial as the wait was inordinate and any further delay would have upset the subsequent schedules. Well!
He'd sung for the labour movement in the '40s and the '50s, for civil rights marches and anti-Vietnam war rallies in the '60s and for environmental and antiwar causes during the '70s and beyond.
"We shall overcome..." which he'd adopted from the old spirituals went on to become a civil rights anthem. We, Indians, are familiar with its desi version, "Hum honge kaamyaab....."
I've been mesmerised with the lyrics and not to forget the peppy energy that I've - always and without fail - derived from hearing this number. As of now, while I punch in these thoughts of mine, the number's playing in the background!
RIP, Pete Seeger. My prayers. You shall continue to live through your music for the years to come.
Tailpiece.
It's an unusually hectic day but I was satisfied that everything, that was planned, could be achieved in the end though at one time I'd almost given up on one serial as the wait was inordinate and any further delay would have upset the subsequent schedules. Well!
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