Jimi Hendrix
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1942-11-27
Place of Birth
Seattle, Washington, USA
Jimi Hendrix
Biography
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 as a part of his band, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the institution describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music". Hendrix began playing guitar at age 15. In 1961, he enlisted in the US Army, but was discharged the following year. Soon afterward, he moved to Clarksville, then Nashville, Tennessee, and began playing gigs on the Chitlin' Circuit, earning a place in the Isley Brothers' backing band and later with Little Richard, with whom he continued to work through mid-1965. He then played with Curtis Knight and the Squires. Hendrix moved to England in late 1966, after bassist Chas Chandler of the Animals became his manager. Within months, he had formed his band, the Jimi Hendrix Experience (with its rhythm section consisting of bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell), and achieved three UK top ten hits: "Hey Joe", "Purple Haze", and "The Wind Cries Mary". He achieved fame in the US after his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. His third and final studio album, Electric Ladyland (1968), became his most commercially successful release and his only number one album on the US Billboard 200 chart. The world's highest-paid rock musician, Hendrix headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970. He died in London from barbiturate-related asphyxia in September 1970, at the age of 27. Hendrix was inspired by American rock and roll and electric blues. He favored overdriven amplifiers with high volume and gain, and was instrumental in popularizing the previously undesirable sounds caused by guitar amplifier feedback. He was also one of the first guitarists to make extensive use of tone-altering effects units in mainstream rock, such as fuzz distortion, Octavia, wah-wah, and Uni-Vibe. He was the first musician to use stereophonic phasing effects in recordings. Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone commented: "Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument as an electronic sound source. Players before him had experimented with feedback and distortion, but Hendrix turned those effects and others into a controlled, fluid vocabulary every bit as personal as the blues with which he began." Description above from the Wikipedia article Jimi Hendrix, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
Nov 29, 2009
Woodstock
Mar 26, 1970
Jimi Plays Monterey
Oct 16, 1987
Jimi Hendrix: The Last 24 Hours
Jan 01, 2004
The Day the Music Died
Jan 01, 1977
Monterey Pop
Dec 26, 1968
When the Music's Over
Jun 14, 1983
Zappa
Nov 27, 2020
Jimi Plays Berkeley
Nov 03, 2003
Hey, Hey, We're The Monkees
Jan 22, 1997
Louder Than Rock
Apr 28, 2023
Participation
Jan 01, 1971
Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland
Dec 09, 2008
Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock
Jul 06, 1999
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: BBC Sessions
Aug 05, 2010
At Last...The Beginning: The Making of Electric Ladyland
Jun 01, 2018
Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival
Feb 15, 1996
Rainbow Bridge
Mar 01, 1972
Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight
Oct 22, 1996
Zakk Wylde: House of Guitars 1993
May 01, 1993
Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child
Sep 18, 2010
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at Monterey
Oct 16, 2007
Jimi Hendrix: Experience
Jan 01, 1968
Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show
Jul 06, 1969
Isle of Wight: Gegengesellschaft Oder Festival-Ramsch?
Dec 12, 1970
Beat Club: The 40th Anniversary Edition
Jan 01, 2008
Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
Mar 30, 2018
Jimi Hendrix - On the Road - Ultimate Experience Live!
Jan 01, 1994
Video from Hell
Feb 28, 1987
Rockthology 2
Aug 26, 2004
Jimi Hendrix: Feedback
Oct 01, 2005
All My Loving
Nov 03, 1968
Jimi Hendrix: The Uncut Story
Sep 08, 2004
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
Nov 04, 2013
Jimi Hendrix - Live at the Isle of Wight
May 31, 1970
Jimi Hendrix
Jun 14, 1973
Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited
Jul 29, 2014
Jimi Hendrix: The Road to Woodstock
Jan 10, 2014
John Mayer: Someday I'll Fly
Apr 06, 2014
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Live in Maui
Nov 20, 2020
Hendrix: Band of Gypsys
Jul 06, 1999
Superstars in Concert
Jan 01, 1984
Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church
Sep 04, 2015
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Sep 08, 2022
Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision
Aug 09, 2024
Psych-Out
Mar 06, 1968
Play It Loud: The Story of Marshall
Nov 28, 2014
Lick Library Quick Licks Jimi Hendrix
Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!: The Rolling Stones in Concert
Sep 03, 1970
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live In Sweden
Jan 09, 1969
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Royal Albert Hall
Feb 24, 1969
Jimi Hendrix: Room Full of Hendrix
Apr 22, 1969
Jimi Hendrix: Metropolis ARTE
Sep 16, 2010
27: Gone Too Soon
Mar 26, 2018
Commercial Entertainment Product
Nov 24, 1992
Dusty
May 02, 1994
Jimi and Sly: The Skin I'm In
Jul 01, 2000
Popcorn
Nov 16, 1969
Sound of the City: London 1964-73
Jun 01, 1973
It's Black Entertainment
Feb 08, 2002
Jimi Hendrix: American Landing
Feb 21, 2007
Jimi Hendrix: The Sex Tape
May 05, 2008
The Last 24 Hours: Jimi Hendrix
Jan 29, 2019
Jimi Hendrix: Live At The Isle Of Wight - Blue Wild Angel
Nov 12, 2002
Music, Money, Madness… Jimi Hendrix Live In Maui
Nov 20, 2020
Woodstock Diary
Aug 14, 1994
Jimi Hendrix Live in Stockholm 1969
Jan 09, 1969
Totally 60s Psychedelic Rock At The BBC
Oct 23, 2015
Jimi
40 Hidden Music Treasures at the BBC
Oct 12, 2024
Jimi Hendrix and The Blues
Oct 01, 2001
Jimi Hendrix: Trapped in Amber
Jan 01, 2019
Wake at Generation
Apr 07, 1968
Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock
Sep 13, 2005
The Beach Boys
May 21, 2024
Dynamite Chicken
Jan 20, 1971
Are You Experienced
Mar 09, 2010
Electric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker
Jun 30, 2005
Woodstock Directors cut
Jul 01, 1994
Beat-Club
Sep 25, 1965
70 Years of Youth Revolt
Nov 21, 2020
Ready Steady Go!
Aug 09, 1963
The Top Ten Revealed
Feb 11, 2018
It Must Be Dusty
May 08, 1968
Dee Time
Apr 04, 1967
This Is Pop
Mar 06, 2021
Omnibus
Oct 13, 1967
Dim Dam Dom
Mar 07, 1965
McCartney 3, 2, 1
Jul 16, 2021
Classic Albums
Apr 14, 1997
The UnXplained
Jul 19, 2019
The Dick Cavett Show
Jun 06, 1968
Seven Ages of Rock
May 19, 2007
