| LC control no. | n 91075522 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Havens, Richie |
| Variant(s) | Havens, Richard Pierce |
| Birth date | 19410121 |
| Death date | 20130422 |
| Place of birth | Bedford-Stuyvesant, New York, N.Y. |
| Place of death | Jersey City, N.J. |
| Profession or occupation | Folk singer Guitarist |
| Found in | His Mirage [SR] p1977: label (Richie Havens) Guinness enc. of pop. mus., 2nd ed. (Havens, Richie; b. Richard Pierce Havens, Jan. 21, 1941, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, N.Y.) New York times (online), viewed Apr. 23, 2013 (in obituary published Apr. 22: Richie Havens; b. Richard Pierce Havens, Jan. 21, 1941, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn; d. Monday [Apr. 22, 2013], Jersey City, aged 72; 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 fly) |
| Associated language | eng |
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