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 that he developed in Detroit.

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Who was born first?

• John Lee Hooker and Thelonious Monk were born the same year
• John Lee Hooker and Merle Travis were born the same year
• John Lee Hooker and Farid al-Atrash were born the same year
• John Lee Hooker and Ella Fitzgerald were born the same year
• John Lee Hooker and Rufus Thomas were born the same year

Timeline

1. Ella FitzgeraldApril 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996
2. Farid al-AtrashOctober 19, 1917 – December 26, 1974
3. John Lee Hooker (this page)August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001
4. Merle TravisNovember 29, 1917 – October 1983
5. Rufus ThomasMarch 26, 1917 – December 15, 2001
6. Thelonious MonkOctober 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982

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