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Jimi Hendrix

I decided to talk about Jimmy Hendrix, that was a famous guitarist from the decade of 60 and one of the greatest influences to many guitarists around the world and a great influence to me too when I was playing guitar. So let’s start, well, he’s real name was James Marshal Hendrix and he was born on the city of Seattle in USA at the year of 1942. Since very small he took interest in music, drawing influence from every of the principal artists at the time, including B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Buddy Holly, and Robert Johnson. His father bought him the first guitar for only $ 5 when jimmy was 16 after see that he used to play with the brooms fingering as if they were guitars. Since that time, Jimmy proved to be an amazing autodidactic, for not having any musical knowledge, not read or write music and still be able to play just touching the sounds that he thought beautiful. After played in some local bands from Seattle, he enlisted in the USA army in a paratroop division where he served for a half year before be discharged due to an injury he received during a parachute jump. Later he would say that the sound of air whistling in the parachute was a source of inspiration for their "space sound" on the guitar.
After this Jimi started to play in backing bands for famous musicians of soul and blues. Musicians like: Tina Turner, Sam Cooke, the Isley Brothers, and Little Richard. That around 1965. In 1966 he forms his own band named “Jimmy James and the Blue Flames” where he played for less than one year. It was when he played with "The Blue Flames" at Cafe Wha? that Hendrix was discovered by Chas Chandler, bassist of the famous British rock group The Animals. Chandler was impressed with Jimi performance. He brought Jimi to England and helped him to form a new band: The Jimi Hendrix Experience with the bassist Noel Redding and the drummer Mitch Mitchell. The Jimi Hendrix Experience quickly became the talk of