James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 as a part of his band, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the institution describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music". Hendrix began playing guitar at age 15. In 1961, he enlisted in the US Army, but was discharged the following year. Soon afterward, he moved to Clarksville, then Nashville, Tennessee, and began playing gigs on the Chitlin' Circuit, earning a place in the Isley Brothers' backing band and later with Little Richard, with whom he continued to work through mid-1965. He then played with Curtis Knight and the Squires. Hendrix moved to England in late 1966, after bassist Chas Chandler of the Animals became his manager. Within months, he had formed his band, the Jimi Hendrix Experience (with its rhythm section consisting of bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell), and achieved three UK top ten hits: "Hey Joe", "Purple Haze", and "The Wind Cries Mary". He achieved fame in the US after his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. His third and final studio album, Electric Ladyland (1968), became his most commercially successful release and his only number one album on the US Billboard 200 chart. The world's highest-paid rock musician, Hendrix headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970. He died in London from barbiturate-related asphyxia in September 1970, at the age of 27. Hendrix was inspired by American rock and roll and electric blues. He favored overdriven amplifiers with high volume and gain, and was instrumental in popularizing the previously undesirable sounds caused by guitar amplifier feedback. He was also one of the first guitarists to make extensive use of tone-altering effects units in mainstream rock, such as fuzz distortion, Octavia, wah-wah, and Uni-Vibe. He was the first musician to use stereophonic phasing effects in recordings. Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone commented: "Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument as an electronic sound source. Players before him had experimented with feedback and distortion, but Hendrix turned those effects and others into a controlled, fluid vocabulary every bit as personal as the blues with which he began." Description above from the Wikipedia article Jimi Hendrix, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Filmography

• 2024Song to Woody: Greenwich Village, the Folk Revival, and Bob Dylan — Music
• 2022The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Los Angeles Forum April 26, 1969
• 2010Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child — Self - Guitar, Lead Vocals
• 2010Let’s Spend the Night Together: Confessions of Rock’s Greatest Groupies — archive footage
• 2008Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland — Self, Music
• 2007The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at Monterey — Self - Guitar, Writer
• 2003Jimi Plays Berkeley — Self - Guitar, Lead Vocals
• 2002Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live at The Isle of Wight — Self - Guitar, Lead Vocals
• 1999Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock — Self - Guitar, Lead Vocals, Writer
• The South Bank Show
• 1970Jimi Hendrix - Live at the Isle of Wight — Self - Vocals, Guitar
• It Must Be Dusty
• 1968Psych-Out — Jimi Hendrix
• Dee Time
• Beat-Club
• State of Being — Music

Appearances as themselves (85)

• 202440 Hidden Music Treasures at the BBC — Self (archive footage)
• 2024Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision — Self (archive footage)
• 2024The Beach Boys — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Louder Than Rock — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues — Self (archive footage)
• McCartney 3, 2, 1 — Self (archive footage)
• This Is Pop — Self (archive footage)
• 70 Years of Youth Revolt — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Jimi Hendrix Experience - Live in Maui — Self
• 2020Music, Money, Madness… Jimi Hendrix Live In Maui — Self (archival footage)
• 2020Zappa — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal — Self (Archive Footage)
• 2019Jimi Hendrix: Trapped in Amber — Self
• 2019The Last 24 Hours: Jimi Hendrix — Self (archive footage)
• The UnXplained — Self (archive footage)
• 201827: Gone Too Soon — Self (archive footage)
• 2018At Last...The Beginning: The Making of Electric Ladyland — Self
• 2018Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars — Self (archive footage)
• The Top Ten Revealed — Self (archive footage)
• 2015Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church — Self (archive footage)
• 2015Totally 60s Psychedelic Rock At The BBC — Self
• 2014Jimi Hendrix: The Road to Woodstock — Self
• 2014John Mayer: Someday I'll Fly — Self
• 2014Play It Loud: The Story of Marshall — Self
• 2014Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited — Self
• 2013Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin' — Self - Musician (archive footage)
• 2010Are You Experienced: An Inside Look — Self
• 2010Jimi Hendrix: Metropolis ARTE — Self
• 2010The Jimi Hendrix Experience: BBC Sessions — Self
• 2009The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts — Self (archive footage)
• 2008Beat Club: The 40th Anniversary Edition — Self (archive footage)
• 2008Jimi Hendrix: The Sex Tape — Self (archive footage)
• 2007Jimi Hendrix: American Landing — Self
• Seven Ages of Rock — Self
• 2005Electric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker — Self (archive footage)
• 2005Jimi Hendrix - Live at Woodstock Definitive Collection — Self - Guitar / Self - Vocals
• 2005Jimi Hendrix: Feedback — Self (archive footage)
• 2004Jimi Hendrix: The Last 24 Hours — Self
• 2004Jimi Hendrix: The Uncut Story — Self
• 2004Rockthology 2 — Self (archive footage)
• 2002It's Black Entertainment — Self (archive footage)
• 2001Jimi Hendrix and The Blues — Self
• 2000Jimi and Sly: The Skin I'm In — Self
• 1999Hendrix: Band of Gypsys — Self
• Classic Albums — Self (archive footage)
• 1997Hey, Hey, We're The Monkees — Self (archive footage)
• 1996Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight — Self
• 1996Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival — Self
• 1994Dusty — Self (archive footage)
• 1994Jimi Hendrix - On the Road - Ultimate Experience Live! — Self
• TOTP2 — Self (archive footage)
• 1994Woodstock Diary — Self
• 1993Zakk Wylde: House of Guitars 1993 — Self
• 1992Commercial Entertainment Product — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Heavy Metal Heaven Hosted by Elvira — Himself
• 1987Jimi Plays Monterey — Self (archive footage)
• 1987Video from Hell — Self (archive footage)
• 1984Superstars in Concert — Self
• 1983When the Music's Over — Self (archive footage)
• 1977The Abyss — Self (archive footage)
• 1977The Day the Music Died — Self (archive footage)
• 1973Jimi Hendrix — Self (archive footage)
• 1973Sound of the City: London 1964-73 — Self
• 1972Rainbow Bridge — Self
• 1971Dynamite Chicken — Self (archive footage)
• 1971Participation — Self (archive footage)
• 1970Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!: The Rolling Stones in Concert — Self
• 1970Isle of Wight: Gegengesellschaft Oder Festival-Ramsch? — Self
• 1970Woodstock — Self
• 1969Jimi Hendrix Live in Stockholm 1969 — Self
• 1969Jimi Hendrix: Room Full of Hendrix — Self
• 1969Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show — Self
• 1969Popcorn — Self
• 1969The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live In Sweden — Self
• 1969The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Royal Albert Hall — Self (Guitar and Vocals)
• 1968All My Loving — Self
• 1968Jimi Hendrix: Experience — Self
• 1968Monterey Pop — Self
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• 1968Wake at Generation — Self
• Omnibus — Self
• Dim Dam Dom — Self
• Ready Steady Go! — Self
• Jimi — Self (archive footage)
• Lick Library Quick Licks Jimi Hendrix — Self (archive footage)