John Lee Hooker

Birthday: August 22nd, 1912 Date of Death: June 21st, 2001 Place of Birth: 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.