# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-lee-hooker
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:30:42.038Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-lee-hooker"
name: "John Lee Hooker"
slug: "john-lee-hooker"
description: "John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues that he developed in Detroit. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi hill country blues. He developed his own driving-rhythm boogie style, distinct from the 1930s–1940s piano-derived boogie-woogie. Hooker was ranked 35 in Rolling Stone's 2015 list of 100 greatest guitarists, and has been cited as one of the greatest male blues vocalists of all time."
tagline: "American blues musician (1912 or 1917–2001)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Lee_Hooker_two.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1917-08-22"
deathDate: "2001-06-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           24.9666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 196000
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump