Jimi Hendrix

I think Jimi Hendrix is the closest thing rock ever had to pure alchemy, and I still can't quite believe how much he reshaped the guitar in just a few short years. Yeah, the showmanship was wild, playing with his teeth, behind his back, lighting the thing on fire, but strip all that away and you're left with this Seattle kid who heard sounds nobody else could hear and somehow made the instrument cry, scream, and whisper at will. His "Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock still gives me chills, equal parts beautiful and furious. He was gone at 27, which breaks my heart every time I think about it, but the work he left behind, Are You Experienced, Electric Ladyland, all of it, still sounds like it landed from the future. What a once-in-forever talent.

Name (English)

Jimi Hendrix

Name (Japanese)

ジミ・ヘンドリックス

Reading

じみ・へんどりっくす

Born

November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Horse

Origin

Seattle, Washington, United States

Height

70 cm

Occupation

singer / record producer / vocalist / guitarist / singer-songwriter

High school

Garfield High School

Awards & achievements

• UK Music Hall of Fame
• 1991 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
• 1992 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://jimihendrix.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jimihendrix/
• Xhttps://x.com/JimiHendrix
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9

Tags

• Washington
• singer
• record producer
• vocalist

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.