Peggy Seeger is a folk singer and songwriter born in New York in 1935, who also becomes closely associated with Britain after living there for more than 30 years. She is the daughter of Charles Seeger, a folklorist and musicologist, and Ruth Crawford Seeger, a modernist composer and early Guggenheim Fellowship recipient. Her family includes the singer Mike Seeger, her brother, and Pete Seeger, her half-brother.

Seeger makes early recordings in the 1950s, including American Folk Songs for Children, which becomes one of her most enduring releases and is described as a major-selling collection of children's songs. Her work is rooted in folk music, and she also appears in the country and singer-songwriter fields.

She performs and records in partnership with the songwriter and activist Ewan MacColl, both as a duo and as solo artists. In Britain, she lives for more than three decades and gains wider renown through that period. With MacColl, she joins The Critics Group, where they perform satirical songs combining theatre, comedy and music. MacColl also writes “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” in her honour.

She is also associated with The Seeger Sisters, The Seeger Family and The Anti-Capitalist Roadshow.