John Lee Hooker

Born

August 22, 1912

Died

June 21, 2001 · age 88

From

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.