Richie Havens
About Richie Havens
Brooklyn-born Richie Havens grew up singing doo wop on street corners, but by the mid-1960s, he'd found his way to Greenwich Village, where he became an integral part of the singer-songwriter explosion alongside Tim Hardin, Fred Neil, et al. His gruff, soulful voice, unconventional guitar tuning, and highly rhythmic strumming style marked Havens as a unique stylist, and he became best known as an imaginative interpreter of material by Bob Dylan, the Beatles, and others. Havens's stirring performance of "Freedom" opened the 1969 Woodstock festival; captured on film, it made him an icon of '60s counterculture.
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contemporaries
- 7 Ringtones Taj Mahal
influences
- 9 Ringtones Sam Cooke
- 4 Ringtones The Drifters
- 33 Ringtones Nina Simone
- 16 Ringtones Bob Dylan
- 4 Ringtones Pete Seeger
followers
- 6 Ringtones Ani DiFranco
- 1 Ringtone Paul Weller
- 7 Ringtones Yes
- 6 Ringtones Jeff Buckley
- 5 Ringtones Bill Withers
