Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Birthday: 18 Jul 1929
Day of death: 12 Feb 2000
Birth place: Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Bio:

Jalacy "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Famed chiefly for his powerful, operatic vocal delivery and wildly theatrical performances of songs such as "I Put a Spell on You" (1956), he sometimes used macabre props onstage, making him an early pioneer of shock rock.

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