Peggy Seeger

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 (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 and the well-known Pete Seeger is her half-brother. Born: 17 June 1935 in New York, New York