Personal Info
Known ForActing
GenderMale
BirthdayAugust 22, 1912
Place of BirthTutwiler, Mississippi, USA
John Lee Hooker
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.
Known For
Top of the Pops
1964
6.7
The Blues Brothers
1980
7.7
The Blues
2003
7.4
The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
2009
7.9
Monochrome: Black, White & Blue
20170
Wired for Sound: A Guitar Odyssey
19970
Feel Like Going Home
2003
8.5
Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music
1993
7.5
Motor City's Burning: Detroit from Motown to the Stooges
20080
Blues at the BBC
2009
7.5