Определение jimi hendrix в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь
{i} (1942-1970) United States blues and rock music guitarist who died by suffocation in London (England) after having ingested wine and sleeping pills
a US guitar player and singer who played the guitar in a completely new way, and was famous for his exciting performances. He died as a result of taking drugs. His songs include Purple Haze and Voodoo Chile (1942-70). byname of James Marshall Hendrix born Nov. 27, 1942, Seattle, Wash., U.S. died Sept. 18, 1970, London, Eng. U.S. blues and rock guitarist (see rock music). Of mixed black-Cherokee ancestry, the left-handed Hendrix taught himself to play the guitar, which he held upside down. He served as an army paratrooper and later toured as guitarist for Little Richard and others. In 1966 he moved to London and formed a trio, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, which rapidly became popular in Europe. His sensational appearance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and the success that year of the album Are You Experienced? lifted him to instant stardom, and his subsequent albums were among the most influential of the 1960s. He died at age 27 of an apparently accidental overdose of barbiturates