{"id":8991,"date":"2014-01-28T13:15:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T18:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=8991"},"modified":"2014-01-28T13:15:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T18:15:09","slug":"folk-music-legend-pete-seeger-dies-at-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2014\/01\/folk-music-legend-pete-seeger-dies-at-94.html","title":{"rendered":"Folk Music Legend Pete Seeger Dies at 94"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pete<\/a><\/p>\n

Peter “Pete” Seeger, 94 years-old, died of natural causes January 27, 2014. Seeger is considered to be one of the pioneers of contemporary folk music. He popularized songs like “This Land is Your Land” and “We Shall Overcome” and wrote famous hits like\u00a0“If I Had a Hammer” and “Turn, Turn, Turn.”<\/p>\n

Seeger began his career in the late 1930s. “I come from a family of teachers, and I was looking for a job on a newspaper and not getting one,” he said in\u00a0an interview with CNN. “I had an aunt who said, ‘Peter, I can get five dollars for you if you come and sing some of your songs in my class.’ Five dollars? In 1939, you would have to work all day or two days to make five dollars. It seemed like stealing.” But Seeger said he took his aunt up on the offer. “Pretty soon I was playing school after school, and I never did work on a newspaper,” he said “You don’t have to play at nightclubs, you don’t have to play on TV, just go from college to college to college, and the kids will sing along with you.”<\/p>\n

And the rest is history. Seeger went on to make folk music his own genre by not allowing any stereotypes pin him to any specific tune or beat. The singer-songwriter will go down in history as a legend that paved the way for musicians around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peter “Pete” Seeger, 94 years-old, died of natural causes January 27, 2014. Seeger is considered to be one of the pioneers of contemporary folk music. He popularized songs like “This Land is Your Land” and “We Shall Overcome” and wrote famous hits like\u00a0“If I Had a Hammer” and “Turn, Turn, Turn.” Seeger began his career…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":500,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2195,2194,2196,2197],"class_list":["post-8991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-folk-music","tag-pete-seeger","tag-peter-seeger","tag-this-land-is-your-land"],"yoast_head":"\nFolk Music Legend Pete Seeger Dies at 94<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2014\/01\/folk-music-legend-pete-seeger-dies-at-94.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Folk Music Legend Pete Seeger Dies at 94\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Peter “Pete” Seeger, 94 years-old, died of natural causes January 27, 2014. Seeger is considered to be one of the pioneers of contemporary folk music. He popularized songs like “This Land is Your Land” and “We Shall Overcome” and wrote famous hits like\u00a0“If I Had a Hammer” and “Turn, Turn, Turn.” Seeger began his career…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2014\/01\/folk-music-legend-pete-seeger-dies-at-94.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Idol Chatter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-01-28T18:15:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/files\/2014\/01\/pete-seeger-300x225.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Angela Guzman\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Folk Music Legend Pete Seeger Dies at 94","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2014\/01\/folk-music-legend-pete-seeger-dies-at-94.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Folk Music Legend Pete Seeger Dies at 94","og_description":"Peter “Pete” Seeger, 94 years-old, died of natural causes January 27, 2014. Seeger is considered to be one of the pioneers of contemporary folk music. He popularized songs like “This Land is Your Land” and “We Shall Overcome” and wrote famous hits like\u00a0“If I Had a Hammer” and “Turn, Turn, Turn.” Seeger began his career…","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2014\/01\/folk-music-legend-pete-seeger-dies-at-94.html","og_site_name":"Idol Chatter","article_published_time":"2014-01-28T18:15:09+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/files\/2014\/01\/pete-seeger-300x225.jpg"}],"author":"Angela Guzman","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2014\/01\/folk-music-legend-pete-seeger-dies-at-94.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2014\/01\/folk-music-legend-pete-seeger-dies-at-94.html","name":"Folk Music Legend Pete Seeger Dies at 94","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2014\/01\/folk-music-legend-pete-seeger-dies-at-94.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2014\/01\/folk-music-legend-pete-seeger-dies-at-94.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/files\/2014\/01\/pete-seeger-300x225.jpg","datePublished":"2014-01-28T18:15:09+00:00","dateModified":"2014-01-28T18:15:09+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#\/schema\/person\/31c9fa4d1a7351e4fb2e1182b2bbe399"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2014\/01\/folk-music-legend-pete-seeger-dies-at-94.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2014\/01\/folk-music-legend-pete-seeger-dies-at-94.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2014\/01\/folk-music-legend-pete-seeger-dies-at-94.html#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/files\/2014\/01\/pete-seeger-300x225.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/files\/2014\/01\/pete-seeger-300x225.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2014\/01\/folk-music-legend-pete-seeger-dies-at-94.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Folk Music Legend Pete Seeger Dies at 94"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/","name":"Idol Chatter","description":"Beliefnet Entertainment blog, TV blog, Movie blog, Religion in entertainment blog","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#\/schema\/person\/31c9fa4d1a7351e4fb2e1182b2bbe399","name":"Angela Guzman","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/8f1\/8f19688cc7374480c920838b5840be33x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/8f1\/8f19688cc7374480c920838b5840be33x96.jpg","caption":"Angela Guzman"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/authors\/a\/angela-guzman.aspx"],"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/author\/aguzman"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8994,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991\/revisions\/8994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}