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Richard Pierce Havens (January 21, 1941 – April 22, 2013) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. His music encompassed elements of folk , soul (both of which he frequently covered ), and rhythm and blues .
Richard Pierce Havens (Brooklyn, 21 gennaio 1941 – Jersey City, 22 aprile 2013) è stato un cantante e chitarrista statunitense, afroamericano, noto soprattutto per la sua particolare pennata, vigorosa e veloce, e per il suo senso del ritmo.
23 apr 2013 · Richie Havens, who marshaled a craggy voice, a percussive guitar and a soulful sensibility to play his way into musical immortality at Woodstock in 1969, improvising the song “Freedom” on the...
22 apr 2013 · The artist offered such power throughout his musical life, even if his fame never ascended to the levels of some of his peers at Woodstock.
Richie Havens grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. His parents instilled in him a love of music, and in his teens, he formed and nurtured several doo-wop groups that regularly performed on street corners and local talent competitions.
26 set 2006 · A 1999 interview with folk singer Richie Havens about his Israeli double is a meditation on faces and friendship, which Havens spontaneously wraps up with a song.
23 apr 2013 · Richie Havens, the folk singer and guitarist who was the first performer at Woodstock, died Monday at age 72. Havens died of a heart attack in New Jersey, his family said in a statement.
