Peter Tork, American bassist and singer, Passed away at 77

Peter Halsten Thorkelson was born on February 13, 1942, and died on February 21, 2019. 

He was better known as Peter Tork. 

He was an American musician and actor. 

Peter Tork was best known as the keyboardist and bass guitarist of the Monkees. 

He was conceived at the previous Doctors Hospital, in Washington, D.C. Although he was conceived in the District of Columbia in 1942, numerous news articles mistakenly report him as conceived in 1944 in New York City, which was the date and spot given on early Monkees public statements. 

Peter Tork is the child of Virginia Hope (née Straus) and Halsten John Thorkelson, a financial matters educator at the University of Connecticut. 


His fatherly granddad was of Norwegian plummet, while his mom was of half German-Jewish and half Irish ancestry. 

He started concentrate piano at nine years old, demonstrating an inclination for music by figuring out how to play a few distinct instruments, including the banjo and both acoustic bass and guitars. 

He went to Windham High School in Willimantic, Connecticut, and was an individual from the first graduating class at E.O. Smith High School in Storrs, Connecticut. 

He went to Carleton College before he moved to New York City, where he turned out to be a piece of the society music scene in Greenwich Village amid the primary portion of the 1960s. While there, he got to know other best in class performers, for example, Stephen Stills. 

On March 3, 2009, he wrote on his website that he had been diagnosed with adenoid cystic carcinoma, a rare, slow-growing form of head and neck cancer. On September 15, 2009, he was told an "all clear" from his doctor. 

Peter Tork died at 77 years old.