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John Lee Hooker

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Birth Date

August 22, 1912

Place of Birth

Tutwiler, Mississippi, USA

Date of Death

June 21, 2001

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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