Richie Havens News

It's been almost a month since singer Richie Havens died. He was one of the first musicians I interviewed - and one of the best.

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The LEAF event has always been about music and family. You can count on seeing great bands and performers, as well as many of the same faces in the crowd each spring and fall.

About two years ago, I was zipping into Borders on 33rd Street near Madison Square Garden on my lunch hour when I almost slammed into someone else entering the store.

Richie Havens and Sam Waymon were close friends. The 72 year old Havens, a folk singer and guitarist best known as the legendary opening act at Woodstock, suffered a fatal heart attack on April 21.

Sweating and strumming the guitar with artistic force, folk singer Richie Havens opened up Woodstock in '69 with a three-hour-long, 11-song set that culminated with " Freedom ." A star on the rise, the Brooklyn artist artist set the tone then and continued to do so throughout his extensive career, which not only included several chart-topping ... (more)

Resume: The Best of Richie Havens demonstrates why he should be remembered for more than being the opening act at one of the world's most famous music festivals.

RICHIE Havens, who died at the age of 72 on Monday from a heart attack, was an iconic figure of the 1960s counterculture, forever defined by his performance as the opening act of the 1969 Woodstock Festival.

Richie Havens passed away a few days ago at a relatively young 72, and even just a couple of years ago, when I saw him at Poisson Rouge , his voice was as strong as ever.

Folk singer Richie Havens, who died Monday at 72, was the opening act in 1969 at Woodstock, the historic counterculture music festival, catapulting him to fame and securing his status as an icon of the baby-boomer generation.

In 1971, around when I first heard the voice that was Richie Havens , I was 7 years old.

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Oka I confessa I didn't know who Richie Havens was until I saw him play on the movie screen in that famous documentary: Woodstock .

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I'd like to spend a little time celebrating his life. Not just as the iconic opening performer at Woodstock, or hall of fame blues folk artist.

Legendary folk singer Richie Havens died Monday at the age of 72. The Brooklyn-born singer is famous opening act at the 1969 Woodstock music festival.

Mr. Havens' death was announced Monday afternoon. He died of a sudden heart attack in his Jersey City home, according to booking agent Tim Drake.

A statement on his website read: "Havens first became part of musical history during his impromptu opening performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival.

From the Los Angeles Times: Richie Havens, the veteran folk singer whose frenetic guitar strumming and impassioned vocals made him one of the defining voices and faces of Woodstock and 1960s pop music, died Monday of a heart attack at his home in Jersey City, N.J. He was 72.

Over a remarkable career that lasted nearly five decades - and only ended with a March 2012 Facebook announcement that he was retiring due to persistent health issues - Richie Havens developed a global reputation as a consummate interpreter of pop and folk hits, an innovative guitarist, and an artist dedicated to myriad social causes.