What is Pete Seeger?
{{Infobox musical artist | name = Pete Seeger | image = Pete Seeger2 - 6-16-07 Photo by Anthony Pepitone.jpg | caption = Seeger in 2007 | image_size = 250 | landscape = yes | background = solo_singer | birth_name = Peter Seeger | alias = | birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1919|5|3}} | birth_place = [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]], United States | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|2014|1|27|1919|5|3}} | death_place = New York City, United States | instrument = [[Banjo]], [[guitar]], [[recorder (musical instrument)|recorder]], [[Tin Whistle]], [[mandolin]], [[piano]], [[ukulele]] | genre = [[American folk music]], [[Protest music]], [[Americana]], | occupation = [[Musician]], songwriter, [[Activism|activist]], [[Presenter|television host]] | years_active = 1939–2014 | label = [[Folkways Records|Folkways]], [[Columbia Records|Columbia]], [[Sony Music Entertainment|CBS]], [[Vanguard Records|Vanguard]], [[Sony Wonder|Sony Kids’]], [[Sony Music Entertainment|SME]] | associated_acts = [[The Weavers]], [[The Almanac Singers]], [[Woody Guthrie]], [[Arlo Guthrie]], [[Tao Rodríguez-Seeger]], [[Lead Belly]] | website = }} '''Pete Seeger''' ('''Peter Seeger'''; May 3, 1919 &ndash; January 27, 2014) was an [[Americans|American]] [[folk music]]ian and [[songwriter]]. He was a longtime friend of [[Woody Guthrie]], and founder of The Almanac Singers and The Weavers,<ref name=pc1>{{Pop Chronicles|1}}</ref> two famous folk bands. Seeger's usual [[musical instrument]] is a [[banjo]]. == Early life == Seeger was born '''Peter Seeger''' on May 3, 1919 in [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/honor-pete-seeger_b_1883818.html | title=Honor Pete Seeger | work=[[The Huffington Post]] | date=September 14, 2013 | accessdate=July 13, 2013 | author=Clapp, E.P.}}</ref> His parents w