Tag: Richie Havens

“‘Freedom’ has become the anthem of youth wherever I go,” Havens told DISCoveries magazine in 1994. “But I’ll sing it for the rest of my life, if only to show the rest of the world what I think an American is. Sometimes I think we don’t know ourselves. But people are all the same, everywhere. They laugh in the same places, even if they don’t know the language.”