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John Lee Hooker

Acting

Born

August 22, 1912

Born In

Tutwiler, Mississippi, USA

Died

June 21, 2001

About

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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