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James Marshal Hendrix was born in fast gas scooter Seattle,
Washington, on November 27, 1942; a 'black' American of African,
European, Cherokee Indian and Mexican descent. An unsettled home
environment made Jimi spend much of his early years staying with his
grandmother, a full-blooded Cherokee fast gas scooter Indian, in Canada.
His mother died when Jimi was 15 about the same time as Jimi began to
take a serious interest in music and playing the guitar. When he was 12
he got his first electric guitar - the instrument which shaped the next
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At the age of 16, Jimi was thrown out of school -apparently for holding
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the army at 17.
After 14 months as a paratrooper, learning a lot about falling and
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decided to enter the music field.
The following four years were hard work touring the States playing
back-up guitar for various R&B bands including Little Richard, Ike and
Tina Turner fast gas scooter, Wilson Pickett, the Isley Brothers and the
late King Curtis among others. The conditions were not suited to his
radical temperament and eventually he was drawn to New York 's fast gas
scooter Greenwich Village where he recorded with the Isley Brothers,
Curtis Knight and various other artists.
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