Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
22/08/1912
Day of Death
21/06/2001
(89) years old
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.