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Richard George Fariña ( Spanish IPA: /ˈfariɲa/; March 8, 1937 – April 30, 1966) [1] was an American folksinger, songwriter, poet and novelist. [2] Early years and education. Fariña was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States, [3] the son of an Irish mother, Theresa Crozier, and a Cuban father of Galician origin, also named Richard Fariña. [4] .
Richard Fariña was an American folk singer and novelist who, with his wife, Mimi Fariña, played a significant role in the folk music revival of the 1960s. Fariña studied engineering and literature at Cornell University and reputedly served with the Irish Republican Army in the mid-1950s and later.
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Jul 10, 2023 · Counterculture rebel Richard Fariña died on the cusp of fame. His only novel remains essential reading for literary psychonauts with a penchant for the absurd search
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Richard George Fariña was an American writer and folksinger. With an Irish mother and a Cuban father, Farina was born a rebel. He grew up in Brooklyn, pre-revolutionary Cuba and Ireland. At 18 he was associated with members of the IRA, and was asked to leave Ireland.
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Apr 29, 2016 · Still, there’s something about his self-taught, feverishly percussive style—his modal tones, his Latin and Irish cadences, his propulsive intensity— that strikes people as original and fresh, and turns the instrument into a natural extension of his irrepressible lyricism and buoyancy of spirit.
Oct 1, 2023 · Bob Dylan survived his motorcycle accident in July that same year, Richard Fariña was killed at age 29 in his just three months previous.
Apr 28, 2016 · In a tragic demise that remains inseparable from his legend, Fariña died two days after his book’s publication, thrown off the back of a friend’s motorcycle while rounding a curve in California’s...
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