Jimi Hendrix
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Jimi Hendrix was born as Johnny Allen Hendrix on November 27, 1942 in Seattle, Washington.
His father was on duty at a US Army camp in Oklahoma when he was born.
When he returned home, his father changed his son's name to James Marshall Hendrix.
Jimi's family life is unstable. His family is poor so he is often sent to live with other family members or friends.
One of her brothers is disabled and brought up by the state, with her two sisters also disabled and handed over for adoption.
Hendrix's parents divorced in 1952 and his mother died six years later.
Around that time, Jimi bought his first guitar and started practicing diligently. His father gave him the first electric guitar the following year.
First career
Jimi Hendrix's first band was The Velvetones followed by The Rocking Kings.
After dropping out of high school, he was involved in legal trouble for driving a stolen car. As an alternative to the prison, he was allowed to join the US Army.
He enrolled on May 31, 1961 and came out one year later. In those days Hendrix met a bass guitarist, Billy Cox, and continued to maintain personal and professional relationships for the rest of his life.
After leaving the Army, Hendrix and Cox moved to Clarksville, Tennessee, and formed a band called The King Casuals and played throughout the South American region for about two years.
Hendrix's experience in the South enable him to develop his personal style, although it is difficult to earn a living.
He moved to New York in 1964. While there, he won the first prize in an amateur contest at The Apollo Theater and joined the Isley Brothers' national tour.
Hendrix played as a reserve for Little Richard in 1965, but due to their unsuitable dispute soon broke up.
Throughout 1965 and 1966, Hendrix played in several bands before forming his own band, Jimmy James and The Blue Flames.
That same year, he also founded the most important band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, with the help of British producer, Chas Chandler.
The early band members were Hendrix and the British musicians Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Hendrix appears and recorded his most influential music along with The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
The band released four studio albums, Are You Experienced and Axis: Bold as Love in 1967, Electric Ladyland in 1968, and The Cry of Love in 1971 after Hendrix's death.
These four albums made it into the top five on the UK and US charts, with Electric Ladyland being the # 1 in the US.
Upon reaching fame in England, The Jimi Hendrix Experience won more fans in America through a show at the Monterey International Pop Festival in Monterey, California, in 1967.
Hendrix at that time destroyed and burned his guitar at the end of the session, an event that was immortalized in the Monterey Pop documentary.
The band went on a European tour, but Redding left the group in June 1969 and was replaced by Cox.
Other Projects
Although Cox has been playing with Hendrix since April 1969, The Jimi Hendrix Experience had a vacuum until 1970.
At the time of the vacuum, Hendrix had two short projects, one called Gypsy Sun and Rainbows and the other called Band of Gypsys.
With the first, he performed one of the most iconic shows at Woodstock on August 18, 1969.
His solo performance, an improvised version of The Star-Spangled Banner (US national anthem) was one of the great moments of his career.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience reunited for a Cry of Love tour in 1970, with Cox still replacing Redding.
The band successfully made 30 tours in the US. After that they did a short tour in Europe.
Hendrix played his last concert in Germany on September 6, 1970.
Death at Age 27 years
Hendrix died of barbiturate poisoning and swallowed his own vomit on September 18, 1970, reportedly after an overdose of sleeping pills.
Despite ending tragically at the age of 27, Hendrix's music continues to influence and inspire many musicians and fans.
In 1992, he was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award from The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences.
A previously unreleased album titled First Rays of the New Rising Sun, was finally released in 1997
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