John Lee Hooker
| 22 Aug 1912 | Tutwiler, Mississippi, USA
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Death date: 21 Jun 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. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi Hill country blues.
