John Lee Hooker
- Birth Date
- 8/22/1912 - 6/21/2001
- Birth Place
- Tutwiler, Mississippi, USA
- Known For
- Acting
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.
