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01-27-2014 11:30 PM |
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/ar...t-94.html?_r=0
Pete Seeger dead at 94. RIP.
This one hits me hard on a personal level, just as the deaths of Forrest Ackerman, Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut did. Not just someone who I thought was a great artist, but someone who had a great effect on my life, who I looked up to as a great human being. I'm sad tonight.
To Seeger, singing wasn't just something he could make money at, but a tool to be used to make the world a better place. This cost him a great deal personally, as he fond himself blacklisted from TV snd radio for having been a member of the Communist Party at one point. He never apologized for his beliefs, or his life, and was convicted of Contempt of Congress for telling the House Un-American Activities Committee this:
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I feel that in my whole life I have never done anything of any conspiratorial nature.” He also stated: “I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs. I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this.
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He founded several programs and foundations, gave away a lot of his own money, and was still winning Grammys as recently as 2011. He never gave up. Mr. Seeger, you were a great inspiration to me. And now you're gone.
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