Pete Seeger, Folk Singer Who Led Social Activism, Dies at 94

Pete Seeger, the folk singer who rallied audiences to social causes for more than six decades and inspired generations of musicians from Bob Dylan and Peter, Paul and Mary to Bruce Springsteen, has died. He was 94.

He died in his sleep yesterday about 9:30 p.m. at New York Presbyterian Hospital, where he had been for six days, according to the Associated Press, which cited Seeger’s grandson, Kitama Cahill-Jackson.