Al recognized and encouraged his son's enthusiasm for music, and provided him with first a ukulele and then a cheap guitar in the months following his mother's death Jimi subsequently immersed himself in learning the instrument, and joined his first band The Velvetones shortly afterwards.īy the summer of 1959 Hendrix had bought his first electric guitar and moved from The Velvetones to another local ensemble called The Rocking Kings. Although spending some of his early years living in Vancouver with his grandmother Nora Rose Moore, Jimi was primarily raised by his father following his parent's divorce in 1951, his mother being removed from his life entirely in 1958 as a result of alcohol-induced cirrhosis. The preeminent "guitar hero" to emerge during the 1960s - as well as being fashioned into the principal deity in the pantheon of celebrity drug casualties - Johhny Allen Hendricks (soon re-named James Marshall Hendricks and eventually known as Jimi Hendrix) was brought into the world in the city of Seattle, the son of Al Hendricks and his wife Lucille Jeter. Remains: Buried, Greenwood Memorial Park, Renton, WA
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