Biography of pete seeger guantanamera

An important strain of popular music of the 1950s had to do with folk music, which Woody Guthrie and Earl Robinson had already associated with social awareness. In 1940 Pete Seeger, who, unlike Guthrie, was the son of urban cosmopolitan Manhattan intellectuals (who were also classical musicians), went further: he formed the Almanac Singers to sing protest songs (We Shall Overcome, Guantanamera), sometimes with communist overtones.

In 1948 Seeger formed the vocal quartet Weavers, loosely modeled after the Carter Family, that debuted with the Hebrew song Tzena Tzena Tzena. Their arranger Gordon Jenkins added a string orchestra to their cover of Leadbelly's Good Night Irene (1948, but became a hit in 1950), thus creating the first folk-pop crossover.

The collaboration with Gordon Jenkins continued with The Roving Kind (1950), Wimoweh (recorded in october 1951), a cover of Solomon Linda's Mbube (1939), On Top Of Old Smokey (1952), Leadbelly's Midnight Special, Sylvie Pete Seeger - Guantanamera Lyrics | LUQ