- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 1912-08-22 · 88 (at death)
- Died
- 2001-06-21
- Place of birth
- Tutwiler, Mississippi, USA
John Lee Hooker
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.
