John Lee Hooker

Born in Tutwiler, Mississippi, USA on August 22, 1912 — died June 21, 2001 (aged 88)

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.