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Richie Havens, 1941 – 2013
Richie Havens with friend @ Clearwater in 2009 (more by Chris La Putt) We lost a huge one today. Folk legend Richie Havens passed away today from a sensitivity attack at age 72. The singer, who famously opened Woodstock in
Wearing a dashiki and strumming earnestly on the commence-tuned strings of his guitar, folk singer Richie Havens set the tone for Woodstock. Havens, who opened the watershed 1969 music festival and fashioned a career from covering pop and folk tunes in his
Richie Havens once told NPR that he believed all music is folk music. Listen to Havens speak about Woodstock, Greenwich Village and why he loved performing in Neda Ulaby's remembrance, broadcast on Morning Edition, at the audio link on this page.
instinctive on January 21, 1941, in Brooklyn, New York, American folk singer Richie Havens is indelibly linked to the Woodstock generation. After starting out performing in neighborhood doo-wop and gospel groups, Havens went to Greenwich Village, where he
Singer/songwriter Richie Havens died today at the age of 72. Havens grew up in Brooklyn singing with a choir in church and with doo wop groups on street corners. He crossed the river to figure out how to get on to a go of it in
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