Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix is one of the greatest guitar players ever in rock and roll history!  He was born in Seattle Washington on November 27, 1942. Jimi had a very difficult childhood but that didn't stop did from playing music; when Jimi was a teenager he learned how to play the guitar. Jimi was a big fan of the blues music and when he was 14 years old he saw Elvis Presley preform and a year after that Jimi Hendrix got his first electric guitar.  When he got the guitar he joined to bands but those didn’t last too long at all. Jimi didn’t think he needed school so in 1959 he dropped out of school and started working weird jobs but Jimi still tried continuing with his music.  Two years later Jimi went into the army and began a paratrooper and in the army Jimi started a band called the King Casuals.  But a year later Jimi was released from the army because when he was in battle he got injured. After he got of the army Jimi pursued music, he got to play back up for the great artists Little Richard and Sam Cooke. Jimi Hendrix formed a group called jimmy James and the blue flames that he played with them at gigs at the club and in the village. In 1966 Jimi got his big break and met Chas Charles and became his manger and in 1967 Jimi released his first single and it was a great hit in Britain. Some other great songs Jimi wrote were purple haze, voodoo child, burning of the midnight lamp and all along the watchtower. Most of his musical success was his guitar playing still, he was amazing at it. He did things that were never done ever and were not of thought of ever being done with a guitar. That  one of the greatest things that ever happened to think is when he was inducted into the rock and hall of fame in 1992. Even though he was a great rocker he did have a bad side to him and he  died in 1970 because he was doing drugs.