4/25/13

Richie Havens, 1941 – 2013

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Richie Havens, 1941 – 2013

His death was announced by The Roots Agency, his booking agents, on their web site: “Richie Havens was gifted with one of the most recognizable voices in popular music. His fiery, poignant, soulful singing style has remained unique and ageless since

An admission that saddens me somehow, but the music. The music! It bore down deep into my soul and stayed there forever. Richie Havens freed me in a way that I would not truly know or have any conscious appreciation for until I was in my 50′s. He was

Born 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 moved to Greenwich Village, where he

Folk singer and guitarist Richie Havens, who opened the 1969 Woodstock music festival with a legendary and lengthy set that helped make him famous, died Monday at age 72.

Wearing a dashiki and strumming earnestly on the open-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

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