Bob Seger and Pete Seeger are not related. There’s no familial connection between the two, just a coincidental surname and shared devotion to music in very different genres.
Who is Bob Seger? Short biography
Bob Seger is an American singer who was born on May 6, 1945, in Detroit.
He had an older brother, George.
Seger’s mother, Charlotte Seger, worked as a domestic helper.
His father, Stewart Seger, worked as a medical technician for Ford Motor Company. He was also a part-time musician. Stewart played guitar, piano, saxophone, clarinet, and even sang in a barbershop quartet.
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Seger’s passion for music was influenced by his father.
“My dad made a big deal when I was, like, four years old about the fact that I sang ‘I’m Looking Over A Four-Leaf Clover’ in the back of his ’49 Buick,” he said in an interview. “He just went nuts over that. I think that was maybe the very first inclination for me.”
When Seger was 10 years old, his father abandoned the family.
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“My father left us when I was 10, so I had to make enough money for us to be able to live in a house because my brother went in the service during Vietnam and I was sole support of my mother,” Bob revealed in a later interview. “And she had no skills, really, except to clean other people’s houses. So I had to have a bunch of jobs, you know, as well as music.”
Career
Bob Seger is seen performing at ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ on October 14, 2014 in Los Angeles, California – @Getty
His first real band was the Decibels. The Decibels were a three-piece group where Seger sang and played guitar. After the Decibels disbanded, he joined the four-piece band Town Criers.
His first solo album, Brand New Morning, was released in October 1971.
In 1976, he and the Silver Bullet Band released the album Night Moves. It was Seger’s first album to receive a Platinum certification from the RIAA.
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Seger retired in 2019.
Who was Pete Seeger? Short biography
Pete Seeger was an American singer who was born on May 3, 1919, in New York City.
His father, Charles Louis Seeger Jr., was a composer and pioneering musicologist who founded one of the first musicology programs in the U.S. at UC Berkeley.
Pete’s mother, Constance de Clyver Edson Seeger, was a classical violinist trained at the Paris Conservatory. She taught violin at Juilliard.
“I was about 16 years old when my father took me to a square dance festival in North Carolina,” Seeger explained. “For the first time in my life, I found there was music in my country that you never heard on the radio. I fell in love with it, especially the long-necked banjos.”
Career
In 1941, Pete started performing as a member of the Almanac Singers along with:
- Lee Hays
- Bess Lomax Hawes
- Butch Hawes
- Woody Guthrie
- Cisco Houston
- Millard Lampell
He stayed with the group for two years.
In 1953, Seeger released his first solo album, American Folk Songs for Children.
In 1972, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
He passed away on January 27, 2014, at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
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