John Lee Hooker

All the "Africanness" of the blues shines through John Lee Hooker : his pure and distinguished face, his strong presence, his primitive, haunting, powerfully rhythmic music, his saturated, repetitive and captivating guitar playing, his deep voice and his singing deep. The entire history of the African-American people is contained in his music: from the moanings and chants of slavery to the hard rock of the 80s through the blues of the deep South and the heavy and violent music of the ghettos.

At the end of an extraordinary career which saw him evolve in all contexts, he remained himself, pure and singular, ineradicable and inimitable. John Lee Hooker , The Boogie Man , is one of the greatest popular artists that black America has given to the world.