John Lee Hooker
Birth date
August 22, 1912
Death date
June 21, 2001
Place of birth
Tutwiler, Mississippi, USA
Profession
Acting
Age
88 years
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.
