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John Lee Hooker
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Birthday: August 22, 1912 (113)
Place of Birth: Tutwiler, Mississippi, USA

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.


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