Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 22, 1912
Place of Birth
Tutwiler, Mississippi, USA
Died
June 21, 2001
John Lee Hooker
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. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi Hill country blues.
