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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 .
Apr 23, 2013 · Richie Havens, who has died of a heart attack aged 72, is best known for his opening performance at the historic 1969 Woodstock festival. He had been scheduled to go on fifth, but major traffic...
Richie Havens, singer, songwriter, performer, artist
Apr 22, 2013 · April 22, 2013. Richie Havens Michael Putland/Getty Images. Richie Havens, who brought an earthy soulfulness to the folk scene of the Sixties and was the first act to hit the stage at...
Apr 23, 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...
Apr 22, 2013 · Richie Havens, a Brooklyn-born singer who sang gospel as a teenager, began playing folk music in Greenwich Village clubs in the 1960s and was the opening act at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair...
Aug 9, 2019 · Woodstock Remembered: Richie Havens on Opening the Fest of ‘People Just Being People’. "It was the first expression of the first global-minded generation born on the planet," singer-songwriter ...
