John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker

Acting
Born 1912-08-22Tutwiler, Mississippi, USADied 2001-06-21
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.