In 2001 he founded the Mammals with Michael Merenda and Ruth Ungar. He plays banjo, guitar, harmonica, and sings in English and Spanish. After his father was invited by the Sandinistas to document the nation"s civil war, Seeger spent nine years of his childhood in Nicaragua. Rodríguez-Seeger is the son of Emilio Rodríguez, a Puerto Rican filmmaker, and Mika Seeger.
Tao Rodríguez-Seeger is an American contemporary folk musician.Ī founder of The Mammals, he is the grandson of folk musician Pete Seeger. On October 21, 2011, Seeger was part of The Pete Seeger March which walked in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street to Columbus Circle. One verse mentions "private property" and the other refers to a depression era relief office. The performance included two of Guthrie"s original verses to the song that have often been censored. They sang Woody Guthrie"s famous song "This Land Is Your Land" during the finale, before an audience estimated at 400,000. Seeger had a radio show "The Tao of Tao" on WAMC. In 2006 he recorded an album, ¡Quebec vaya bien!, with Puerto Rican folk singers Roy Brown, and Tito Auger of the Puerto Rican rock band Fiel a la vega and he formed the Anarchist Orchestra (now known as the Tao Rodriguez-Seeger band) with Jacob Silver, also of the Mammals, Laura Cortese and Robin McMillan.
Poughkeepsie, New York, United States of America
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