Mary Travers
Mary Allin Travers ( born November 9, 1936 in Louisville, Kentucky; † 16 September 2009 in Danbury, Connecticut) was an American folk singer and singer- songwriter.
Life
Mary Travers grew up in New York's Greenwich Village. Access to the folk music she found by Pete Seeger, who lived in the immediate vicinity of the Travers family. They participated in an album of Seeger and performed with him on at two concerts at Carnegie Hall. By meeting with Yarrow and Stookey that led to the founding of the group Peter, Paul and Mary, Mary Travers could then develop into independent and successful artist. She was married four times and had two daughters. In the 1960s she was a prominent member of the civil rights movement. Their commitment was particularly the observance of human rights in Latin America and the abolition of apartheid in South Africa.
She is best known as a member of the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, along with Peter Yarrow and Noel "Paul" Stookey. They were one of the most successful bands in the 1960s. Peter, Paul and Mary were founded in 1961 and separated in 1970. After this time, Travers began her solo career and released five albums. In 1978, the group merged together and had since made numerous appearances and lots of new albums.
Since 2004, Mary Travers had chemotherapy and several operations, including undergoing a bone marrow transplant. Despite this, she continued to perform on with Peter, Paul and Mary. On September 16, 2009, she died of leukemia.