John Lee Hooker
- Born
- 22 August 1912 (88 years old)
- Died
- 21 June 2001
- Place of birth
- Tutwiler, Mississippi, USA
- Gender
- Male
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.
