Tao Rodríguez-Seeger

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Name = Tao Rodríguez-Seeger


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Born = Poughkeepsie, New York, 1972
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Instrument = Banjo, guitar (6 & 12 string), harmonica, vocals
Genre = folk, folk rock, old time music
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Years_active = 1986 - present
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Associated_acts = The Mammals, Pete Seeger, The Anarchist Orchestra, Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion, Roy Brown, Tito Auger
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Tao Rodríguez-Seeger (b. New York 1972) is an American contemporary folk musician. He plays banjo, guitar, harmonica, and sings in Spanish and in English.

Biography

Tao spent nine years of his childhood in Nicaragua. Tao's father, Emilio Rodríguez, a Puerto Rican filmmaker, was invited by the Sandinistas to document the nation's civil war [Link, Melissa, [http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/092602/roc_20020926017.shtml "Not Just Another Folk Singer"] Athens Banner-Herald 26 September, 2002. Retrieved April 13, 2007 ] . Tao's mother is Mika Seeger [Dunaway, David K., How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger, McGraw Hill (1981), DaCapo (1990), ISBN 0-07-018150-0, ISBN 0-07-018151-9, ISBN 0-306-80399-2] .

When he was sixteen, in 1986, Rodríguez-Seeger started performing with his grandfather Pete Seeger [Mike Green & Associates. Retrieved 14 April, 2007. [http://mikegreenassociates.com/cgi-bin/roster/db.cgi?db=default&uid=default&view_records=+Search+&ww=1&ID=28 The Mammals Bios] ] . In 1999 he was a member of the band RIG, with Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion [Link, Melissa, [http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/092602/roc_20020926017.shtml "Not Just Another Folk Singer"] Athens Banner-Herald 26 September, 2002. Retrieved April 13, 2007 ] . In 2001 he was a founding member of the Mammals with Michael Merenda and Ruth Ungar [Himes, Geoffrey [http://www.citypaper.com/printstory.asp?id=9287 "Old School"] Baltimore City Paper 26 November, 2004. Retrieved 4 September, 2007] . In 2006 he recorded an album, " [http://www.quevayabien.com/ Que 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.

He had a radio show "The Tao of Tao" on WAMC [Barry, John W., [http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/entertainment/groove/merenda_woodward.shtml "Individualism Shines Through Work of Duo" (sidebar)] Poughkeepsie Journal 21 November, 2003. Retrieved:14 April, 2007] .

Discography

With the Mammals

*"Born Live" (2001)
*"Evolver" (2002)
*"Migration" (EP)(2004)
*"Rock That Babe" (2004)
*"Departure" (2006)

With Roy Brown and Tito Auger

*"Que Vaya Bien" (2006)

With the Anarchist Orchestra/the Tao Rodriguez-Seeger Band

*'The Anarchist Orchestra'(EP)(2006)

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External links

*http://www.themammals.net
*http://www.anarchistorchestra.com/
*Tao's [http://www.myspace.com/taorodriguezseeger/ myspace page]
* [http://www.quevayabien.com/ "Que Vaya Bien"]
*Management: Tao is now managed by Thom Wolke Management - [e-mail]