John Lee Hooker

  • Known for: Actor
  • Date of birth: 1912. August 22.
  • Place of birth: Tutwiler, Mississippi, USA

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....

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