Travers, Mary
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Birthname | Mary Allin Travers | ||||
born on | 9 November 1936 at 08:13 (= 08:13 AM ) | ||||
Place | Louisville, Kentucky, 38n15, 85w46 | ||||
Timezone | CST h6w (is standard time) | ||||
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Biography
American singer who teamed up with Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey in 1961 as the singing group "Peter, Paul and Mary." Building their reputation on folk songs and ballads, they were familiar figures on campuses and protest platforms. Their many hits throughout the '60s included "Blowin' in the Wind," "Go Tell it to the Mountain" and "Puff, the Magic Dragon." They were touring over 200 days a year at their peak and by 1995 was still touring about 60 dates a year, winning a fourth generation of fans. In early 1995 they released their "Life Journeys."
Travers has two daughters and two granddaughters and lives in Connecticut. The family demonstrated their unity when she, her mom and her grown daughter were all arrested during an anti-apartheid protest.
On December 7, 2004, the singer’s publicist announced that Travers is suffering from a form of leukemia and is undergoing chemotherapy. She expects to be in remission in three months and to tour with her group Peter, Paul and Mary in February 2005.
She died in Danbury, CT on September 16, 2009 of complications from a bone-marrow transplant and other treatment that she had received for leukemia.
Relationships
- business associate/partner relationship with Stookey, Paul (born 30 December 1937)
- business associate/partner relationship with Yarrow, Peter (born 31 May 1938)
- friend relationship with Van Ronk, Dave (born 30 June 1936)
Events
- Death by Disease 16 September 2009 (From complications of leukemia treatment, age 72)
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Source Notes
Contemporary American Horoscopes (Formerly, Linda Clark had quoted her for 10:15 AM)
Categories
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Cancer
- Lifestyle : Work : Travel for work (Music tours)
- Personal : Death : Illness/ Disease
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Folk Music
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Group/ Duo (Peter, Paul and Mary)
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Vocalist/ Pop, Rock, etc.
- Vocation : Politics : Activist/ social (Protested war, bigotry, racism)
- Notable : Famous : Top 5% of Profession
- Notable : Book Collection : Occult/ Misc. Collection
- 1936 births
- Birthday 9 November
- Birthplace Louisville, KY (US)
- Sun 17 Scorpio
- Moon 26 Virgo
- Asc 9 Sagittarius
- 2009 deaths
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Cancer
- Lifestyle : Work : Travel for work
- Personal : Death : Illness/ Disease
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Folk Music
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Group/ Duo
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Vocalist/ Pop, Rock, etc.
- Vocation : Politics : Activist/ social
- Notable : Famous : Top 5% of Profession
- Notable : Book Collection : Occult/ Misc. Collection