John Lee Hooker
American blues musician (1912 or 1917–2001)
Biography
John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues that he developed in Detroit. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi hill country blues. He developed his own driving-rhythm boogie style, distinct from the 1930s–1940s piano-derived boogie-woogie. Hooker was ranked 35 in Rolling Stone's 2015 list of 100 greatest guitarists, and has been cited as one of the greatest male blues vocalists of all time.
Occupation
John Lee Hooker is recorded as a recording artist, a blues musician, a guitarist, a singer-songwriter, a singer and a composer, born in Mississippi (1917–2001).
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John Lee Hooker was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1917. Explore other notable figures from Mississippi, historic sites connected to this era, and the full colonial and statehood history of the state using the links below.
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