Artist

Peggy Seeger

New York City, United States · b. 1935

Peggy Seeger is a musician from New York City, United States, active since 1935.

Photo of Peggy Seeger

Biography

Peggy Seeger (born June 17, 1935, New York City) is an American folksinger. She is also well known in Britain, where she lived for more than 30 years with her husband, songwriter Ewan MacColl.
Seeger's father was Charles Seeger (opens in a new tab) (1886–1979), an important folklorist and musicologist; her mother was Seeger's second wife, Ruth Crawford Seeger, née Ruth Porter Crawford (1901–1953), a modernist composer who was one of the first women to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship. One of her brothers is Mike Seeger (opens in a new tab) and Pete Seeger (opens in a new tab) was her half-brother.
Founder member of the.

Bio from Discogs

Related artists

Around the web

Follow every record they touch.

Start your shelf and Gatefold tracks Peggy Seeger's new pressings, tour dates, and the whole discography — automatically.

Start your shelf →

Free forever. Works with 10 records or 10,000.