The history of music artists: The case of Pete Seeger!
Peter Seeger or just Pete Seeger was an American songwriter, folk singer, author and peace activist. His songs and recordings, were especially known in the 1950s and the 1960s, and it affected a long number of protest singers.
Pete Seeger was born on 3 May 1919 in French Hospital, and he died on 27 January 2014 in New York in Presbyterian Hospital. Pete Seeger had a spouse, and that was Toshi Seeger from 1943 to 2014. Together they had four children, and these were Mika Seeger, Peter Öta Seeger, Daniel Seeger and Tinya Seeger. And he joined himself into the music groups as «The Weavers» (1980) and «Almanac Singers» (1941-1942).
We find Pete Seeger on the ordinary music platforms on the internet, and these are YouTube, YouTube Music, Deezer and Spotify. Some of the popular songs from Pete Seeger are: «Where Have All the Flowers Gone?», «We Shall Overcome» and «Waist Deep in the Big Muddy». And these songs are listened to around the world, and organizations and artists must always find their target groups, and do segmentation analysis in properly ways to know what is going on and how the profile of innovators and other adopter groups should be. There are 5 types of adopters for products; innovators, early adopters, the early majority, the late majority and laggards, and these groups have different characteristics, and they are present sometimes during the products coming to the markets.
Pete Seeger was known for several melodies, you find them as music videos on the internet, and they were: «This Land Is Your Land», «Forever Young» and his «Greatest Hits» among all the things you can find of him on the internet. We find much of Pete Seeger several places, and he was a known music artist, and he also made some albums which we also want to mention here. These are: «Rainbow Race», «Children’s Concert at Town Hall», «God Bless the Grass» and «At 89».
A prolific songwriter, his best-known songs include "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" (with additional lyrics by Joe Hickerson), "If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)" (with Lee Hays of the Weavers), "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" (also with Hays), and "Turn! Turn! Turn!", which have been recorded by many artists both in and outside the folk revival movement. "Flowers" was a hit recording for the Kingston Trio (1962); Marlene Dietrich, who recorded it in English, German and French (1962); and Johnny Rivers (1965). "If I Had a Hammer" was a hit for Peter, Paul and Mary (1962) and Trini Lopez (1963) while the Byrds had a number one hit with "Turn! Turn! Turn!" in 1965.
Seeger was one of the folk singers responsible for popularizing the spiritual "We Shall Overcome" (also recorded by Joan Baez and many other singer-activists), which became the acknowledged anthem of the Civil Rights Movement, soon after folk singer and activist Guy Carawan introduced it at the founding meeting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960. In the PBS American Masters episode "Pete Seeger: The Power of Song", Seeger said it was he who changed the lyric from the traditional "We will overcome" to the more singable "We shall overcome".
Seeger was known for being in the genres American folk music, protest music and Americana. His occupations were to be a musician, songwriter and television host. And he was singing, and played the banjo or the guitar. He was active in the period 1939 to 2014.
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