Person
John Lee Hooker
- Specialty
- Acting
- Birth
- August 22, 1912 · 88 years
- Death
- June 21, 2001
- Origin
- Tutwiler, Mississippi, USA
Professional Trajectory
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. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi Hill country blues.
