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Jimi Hendrix
Writer, Actor, Producer, Composer
Born November 27, 1942Died September 18, 1970 (27 years)
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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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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Filmography
| 2025 | Being Eddie · as Self - Musician |
| 2025 | The Rock Prophet: Link Wray · as Self |
| 2024 | Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2024 | The Beach Boys · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2023 | The Stones and Brian Jones · as Self - Brian's Friend & Musician |
| 2023 | San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2023 | Cover Your Ears · as Self - Guitarist |
| 2023 | Little Richard: I Am Everything · as Self |
| 2022 | Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2022 | |
| 2022 | Uncle Tom II: An American Odyssey · as Self |
| 2022 | Piper Generation · as Self |
| 2022 | Patti Smith: Electric Poet · as Self |
| 2021 | a-ha: The Movie · as Self |
| 2021 | |
| 2021 | Woodstock 99: Peace Love and Rage · as Self |
| 2021 | McCartney 3, 2, 1 (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2021 | This Is Pop (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | Zappa · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | Music, Money, Madness... Jimi Hendrix in Maui · as Self (archival Footage) |
| 2020 | Ronnie's · as Self |
| 2020 | |
| 2019 | The Vasulka Effect · as Self |
| 2019 | ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band from Texas · as Self |
| 2019 | Jimi Hendrix: Trapped in Amber · as Self |
| 2019 | Eric Burdon: Rock'n'Roll Animal · as Self |
| 2019 | |
| 2019 | The UnXplained (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2019 | ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads · as Self |
| 2019 | The Last 24 Hours: Jimi Hendrix · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2018 | Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes · as Self |
| 2018 | Portillo's Hidden History of Britain (TV Series) · as Self - The Jimi Hendrix Experience |
| 2018 | 27: Gone Too Soon · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2018 | The Top Ten Revealed (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2017 | Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2017 | Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World · as Self - Guitarist |
| 2017 | The Summer of Love · as Self |
| 2017 | Secrets of Desert Point · as Self |
| 2016 | |
| 2016 | |
| 2015 | Janis: Little Girl Blue · as Self |
| 2015 | Jimi Hendrix Electric Church · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2014 | Play It Loud: The Story of Marshall · as Self |
| 2014 | Super Duper Alice Cooper · as Self |
| 2014 | John Mayer: Someday I'll Fly · as Self |
| 2014 | Lambert & Stamp · as Self |
| 2014 | Jimi Hendrix: The Road to Woodstock · as Self |
| 2013 | Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin' · as Self - Musician (archive Footage) |
| 2013 | Muscle Shoals · as Self |
| 2013 | Hendrix on Hendrix · as Self |
| 2012 | |
| 2012 | I Am Bruce Lee · as Self |
| 2012 | Elvis Found Alive · as Self |
| 2011 | The Decade You Were Born: The 1970's · as Self - Singer |
| 2011 | The Substance: Albert Hofmann's LSD · as Self |
| 2011 | |
| 2011 | Pearl Jam Twenty · as Self |
| 2010 | Jimi Hendrix: The Guitar Hero · as Self - The Jimi Hendrix Experience |
| 2010 | Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child · as Self - Guitar, Lead Vocals |
| 2010 | Jimi Hendrix · as Self |
| 2009 | When You're Strange · as Self |
| 2009 | The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2009 | Déchaînées · as Self |
| 2009 | Woodstock: Now & Then · as Self |
| 2009 | Jimi Hendrix: By Those Who Knew Him Best · as Self |
| 2009 | |
| 2008 | 68 · as Self |
| 2008 | 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs · as Self |
| 2008 | |
| 2008 | Waiting for Hockney · as Self |
| 2008 | Beat Club: The 40th Anniversary Edition · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2008 | The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at Monterey · as Self - Guitar |
| 2007 | Jimi Hendrix: Complete Story · as Self |
| 2007 | 7 Ages of Rock (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2006 | VH1's Heavy: The Story of Metal · as Self |
| 2005 | Jimi Hendrix: Feedback · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2005 | Electric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2004 | Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue · as Self |
| 2004 | Rockthology 2 · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2004 | Jimi Hendrix: The Last 24 Hours · as Self |
| 2003 | The Howlin' Wolf Story · as Self |
| 2003 | A Decade Under the Influence · as Self |
| 2002 | Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live at The Isle of Wight · as Self - Guitar, Lead Vocals |
| 2002 | Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show · as Self |
| 2002 | It's Black Entertainment · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2002 | Pink Floyd the Wall Redux · as Self |
| 2001 | Nine Hundred Nights · as Self |
| 2000 | My Generation · as Self |
| 2000 | Jimi and Sly: The Skin I'm In · as Self |
| 1999 | Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock · as Self - Guitar, Lead Vocals |
| 1999 | Hendrix: Band of Gypsys · as Self |
| 1999 | Life · as Self |
| 1999 | Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock · as Self - Guitar / Self - Vocals |
| 1998 | |
| 1998 | |
| 1997 | Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland · as Self |
| 1997 | Classic Albums (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1997 | Hey, Hey We're the Monkees · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1996 | |
| 1994 | TOTP2 (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1994 | Woodstock Diary · as Self |
| 1993 | Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock · as Self |
| 1991 | Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight · as Self |
| 1990 | When the Applause Died · as Self |
| 1990 | |
| 1990 | Metalhead Video Magazine Volume 2 · as Self (crosstown Traffic Video) |
| 1987 | |
| 1987 | It Was 20 Years Ago Today · as Self |
| 1986 | Jimi Plays Monterey · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1985 | The Beach Boys: An American Band · as Self |
| 1985 | Video from Hell · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1979 | Time After Time · as Self - Performing |
| 1977 | The Abyss · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1977 | The Day the Music Died · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1973 | Jimi Hendrix · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1973 | Rock City · as Self |
| 1973 | Little Richard: Keep on Rockin' · as Self |
| 1972 | Rainbow Bridge · as Self |
| 1971 | Jimi Plays Berkeley · as Self - Guitar, Lead Vocals |
| 1971 | Dynamite Chicken · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1970 | Woodstock · as Self |
| 1969 | Popcorn · as Self |
| 1969 | Jimi Hendrix: Room Full of Hendrix · as Self |
| 1968 | Monterey Pop · as Self |
| 1968 | All My Loving · as Self |
| 1968 | Psych-Out · as Jimi Hendrix |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1968 | Experience · as Self |
| 1967 | Omnibus (1967) (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1967 | Dee Time (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1966 | Beat! Beat! Beat! (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1965 | Beat Club (TV Series) · as Self - Musician |
| 1965 | Dim Dam Dom (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1964 | Late Night Line-Up (TV Series) · as Self - Guitar & Vocals, The Jimi Hendrix Experience |
| 1964 | Top of the Pops (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1963 | Ready Steady Go! (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |