John Lee Hooker
Acting
August 22, 1912
Died at age 88
June 21, 2001
Date of Death
Tutwiler, Mississippi, USA
26 Credits
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.
