Gil Turner

Gil Turner was an American folk singersongwriter, magazine editor, Shakespearean actor, political activist, and for a time, a lay Baptist preacher. Turner was a prominent figure in the Greenwich Village scene of the early 1960s, where he was master of ceremonies at New Yorks leading folk music venue, Gerdes Folk City, as well as coeditor of the protest song magazine Broadside. He also wrote for Sing Out, the quarterly folk music journal.

Turner was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the son of a machinist. His father, a German immigrant, was a member of a Bridgeport singing group that toured the US twice, and his mother, a member of the church choir. Besides their musical talent, Turner inherited his parents love of religion, and as a teen, he became a lay preacher.

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