
Jimi Hendrix
Known for ActingBorn 1942-11-27Died 1970-09-18Seattle, Washington, USA
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.Read more
Movies & web series
Jimi Hendrix: Metropolis ARTE
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Jimi Hendrix: Metropolis ARTE
2010 · Movie
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John Mayer: Someday I'll Fly
2014 · Movie
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Electric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker
2005 · Movie
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at Monterey
2007 · Movie
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Seven Ages of Rock
2007 · Series
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Heavy Metal Heaven Hosted by Elvira
1989 · Series
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40 Hidden Music Treasures at the BBC
2024 · Movie
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Jimi Hendrix Experience - Live in Maui
2020 · Movie
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It's Black Entertainment
2002 · Movie
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McCartney 3, 2, 1
2021 · Series
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Commercial Entertainment Product
1992 · Movie
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Jimi Hendrix: The Last 24 Hours
2004 · Movie
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Woodstock Diary
1994 · Movie
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Beat-Club
1965 · Series
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Hey, Hey, We're The Monkees
1997 · Movie
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The Last 24 Hours: Jimi Hendrix
2019 · Movie
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The Top Ten Revealed
2018 · Series
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Jimi Hendrix - Live at Woodstock Definitive Collection
2005 · Movie
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Jimi Hendrix: The Uncut Story
2004 · Movie
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The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
2009 · Movie
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Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland
2008 · Movie
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Dusty
1994 · Movie
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Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock
1999 · Movie
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The Day the Music Died
1977 · Movie
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Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show
1969 · Movie
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Jimi Hendrix: Room Full of Hendrix
1969 · Movie
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Classic Albums
1997 · Series
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Dim Dam Dom
1965 · Series
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Jimi Hendrix: The Road to Woodstock
2014 · Movie
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Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
2013 · Movie
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Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church
2015 · Movie
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Jimi Hendrix
1973 · Movie
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Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child
2010 · Movie
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Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
2018 · Movie
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Zappa
2020 · Movie
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70 Years of Youth Revolt
2020 · Series
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Jimi Plays Monterey
1987 · Movie
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The Abyss
1977 · Movie
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Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision
2024 · Movie
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Woodstock
1970 · Movie
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Hendrix: Band of Gypsys
1999 · Movie
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Video from Hell
1987 · Movie
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Monterey Pop
1968 · Movie
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Rainbow Bridge
1972 · Movie
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Popcorn
1969 · Movie
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TOTP2
1994 · Series
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The UnXplained
2019 · Series
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Omnibus
1967 · Series