[ Return to Index ] [ Read Prev Msg ] [ Read Next Msg ] People of Note - Obituaries GenealogyBuff.com - Jimi Hendrix Posted By: GenealogyBuff.com Date: Sunday, 4 September 2016, at 8:56 a.m. System Mechanic - Clean, repair, protect, and speed up your PC! Jimi Hendrix November 27, 1942 - September 18, 1970 James Marshal Hendrix was born in Seattle, Washington, on November 27, 1942, of African, European, Cherokee Indian and Mexican descent. An unsettled home environment made Jimi spend much of his early years staying with his grandmother, a full-blooded Cherokee Indian, in Canada. His mother died when Jimi was 15, about the same time as Jimi began to take a serious interest in music. When he was 12, he got his first electric guitar. At the age of 16, Jimi was thrown out of school before voluntarily joining the army at 17. After 14 months as a paratrooper, he suffered an injury and was discharged. He decided to enter the music field. The next four years were spent touring, playing back-up guitar for various R&B bands including Little Richard, Ike and Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett, the Isley Brothers and the late King Curtis among others. Then in late 1965 he formed his first band - Jimmy James and the Blue Flames. Next came The Jimi Hendrix Experience, with Noel Redding on bass and Mitch Mitchell behind the drums. They toured Europe, breaking attendance records at one club after another, and then signed a recording contract. USA Yearbooks by State and County [ Return to Index ] [ Read Prev Msg ] [ Read Next Msg ] People of Note - Obituaries is maintained by GenealogyBuff with WebBBS 5.12.

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