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Name
Jimi Hendrix

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1942-11-27

Deathday
1970-09-18 (28 years old)

Place of Birth
Seattle, Washington, USA

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."

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Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

2009 The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts as Self (archive footage)
1970 Woodstock as Self
1987 Jimi Plays Monterey as Self (archive footage)
2004 Jimi Hendrix: The Last 24 Hours as Self
1977 The Day the Music Died as Self (archive footage)
1968 Monterey Pop as Self
1983 When the Music's Over as Self (archive footage)
2020 Zappa as Self (archive footage)
2003 Jimi Plays Berkeley as Self - Guitar, Lead Vocals
1997 Hey, Hey, We're The Monkees as Self (archive footage)
2023 Louder Than Rock as Self (archive footage)
1971 Participation as Self (archive footage)
2008 Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland as Self
1999 Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock as Self - Guitar, Lead Vocals
2010 The Jimi Hendrix Experience: BBC Sessions as Self
2018 At Last...The Beginning: The Making of Electric Ladyland as Self
1996 Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival as Self
1972 Rainbow Bridge as Self
1996 Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight as Self
1993 Zakk Wylde: House of Guitars 1993 as Self
2010 Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child as Self - Guitar, Lead Vocals
2007 The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at Monterey as Self - Guitar
1968 Jimi Hendrix: Experience as Self
1969 Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show as Self
1970 Isle of Wight: Gegengesellschaft Oder Festival-Ramsch? as Self
2008 Beat Club: The 40th Anniversary Edition as Self (archive footage)
2018 Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars as Self (archive footage)
1994 Jimi Hendrix - On the Road - Ultimate Experience Live! as Self
1987 Video from Hell as Self (archive footage)
2004 Rockthology 2 as Self (archive footage)
2005 Jimi Hendrix: Feedback as Self (archive footage)
1968 All My Loving as Self
2004 Jimi Hendrix: The Uncut Story as Self
2013 Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin' as Self - Musician (archive footage)
1970 Jimi Hendrix - Live at the Isle of Wight as Self - Vocals, Guitar
1973 Jimi Hendrix as Self (archive footage)
2014 Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited as Self
2014 Jimi Hendrix: The Road to Woodstock as Self
2014 John Mayer: Someday I'll Fly as Self
2020 Jimi Hendrix Experience - Live in Maui as Self
1999 Hendrix: Band of Gypsys as Self
1984 Superstars in Concert as Self
2015 Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church as Self (archive footage)
2022 Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues as Self (archive footage)
2024 Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision as Self (archive footage)
1968 Psych-Out as Jimi Hendrix
2014 Play It Loud: The Story of Marshall as Self
Soon Lick Library Quick Licks Jimi Hendrix as Self (archive footage)
1970 Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!: The Rolling Stones in Concert as Self
1969 The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live In Sweden as Self
1969 The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Royal Albert Hall as Self (Guitar and Vocals)
1969 Jimi Hendrix: Room Full of Hendrix as Self
2010 Jimi Hendrix: Metropolis ARTE as Self
2018 27: Gone Too Soon as Self (archive footage)
1992 Commercial Entertainment Product as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1994 Dusty as Self (archive footage)
2000 Jimi and Sly: The Skin I'm In as Self
1969 Popcorn as Self
1973 Sound of the City: London 1964-73 as Self
2002 It's Black Entertainment as Self (archive footage)
2007 Jimi Hendrix: American Landing as Self
2008 Jimi Hendrix: The Sex Tape as Self (archive footage)
2019 The Last 24 Hours: Jimi Hendrix as Self (archive footage)
2002 Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live at The Isle of Wight as Self - Guitar, Lead Vocals
2020 Music, Money, Madness… Jimi Hendrix Live In Maui as Self (archival footage)
1994 Woodstock Diary as Self
1969 Jimi Hendrix Live in Stockholm 1969 as Self
2015 Totally 60s Psychedelic Rock At The BBC as Self
Soon Jimi as Self (archive footage)
2024 40 Hidden Music Treasures at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
2001 Jimi Hendrix and The Blues as Self
2019 Jimi Hendrix: Trapped in Amber as Self
1968 Wake at Generation as Self
2005 Jimi Hendrix - Live at Woodstock Definitive Collection as Self - Guitar / Self - Vocals
2024 The Beach Boys as Self (archive footage)
1971 Dynamite Chicken as Self (archive footage)
2010 Are You Experienced as Self
2005 Electric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker as Self (archive footage)
2022 The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Los Angeles Forum April 26, 1969
1977 The Abyss as Self (archive footage)
2019 Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal as Self (Archive Footage)
2010 Let’s Spend the Night Together: Confessions of Rock’s Greatest Groupies as archive footage

1965 Beat-Club ( 0 episode )
2020 70 Years of Youth Revolt ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
1963 Ready Steady Go! ( 1 episode ) as Self
2018 The Top Ten Revealed ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
1968 It Must Be Dusty ( 1 episode )
1967 Dee Time ( 1 episode )
2021 This Is Pop ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
1967 Omnibus ( 1 episode ) as Self
1965 Dim Dam Dom ( 2 episodes ) as Self
2021 McCartney 3, 2, 1 ( 6 episodes ) as Self (archive footage)
1997 Classic Albums ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
2019 The UnXplained ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
1968 The Dick Cavett Show ( 2 episodes ) as Self - Guest
2007 Seven Ages of Rock ( 7 episodes ) as Self
1994 TOTP2 ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
1989 Heavy Metal Heaven Hosted by Elvira ( 1 episode ) as Himself

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