CULTURETECHLENSJimi Hendrix
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Combined Graph record U-07070 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5811.
Jimi Hendrix, born Johnny Allen Hendrix on 27 November 1942 in Seattle, Washington, was an American guitarist, singer and composer who redefined the electric guitar. He took up the guitar at fifteen, served briefly in the U.S. Army in 1961–62, and then worked the Chitlin' Circuit, backing the Isley Brothers and, through mid-1965, Little Richard. Moving to London in late 1966 under manager Chas Chandler, he formed the Jimi Hendrix Experience with bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell and scored three UK Top 10 hits: "Hey Joe," "Purple Haze" and "The Wind Cries Mary." His 1967 Monterey Pop Festival performance made him famous in the United States. His third album, Electric Ladyland (1968), was his only No. 1 album on the Billboard 200. He headlined Woodstock in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970. Hendrix died in London on 18 September 1970, at age 27, after a recording career as a featured artist of only four years. The Jimi Hendrix Experience were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.
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Jimi Hendrix, born Johnny Allen Hendrix on 27 November 1942 in Seattle, Washington, was an American guitarist, singer and composer who redefined the electric guitar. He took up the guitar at fifteen, served briefly in the U.S. Army in 1961–62, and then worked the Chitlin' Circuit, backing the Isley Brothers and, through mid-1965, Little Richard.
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- Also known as: James Marshall Hendrix, Johnny Allen Hendrix
Notes
Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 2 — 747 Program, Wave 8; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Jimi Hendrix entity in the live graph at 3,523 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5811 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 519 (Guitarists list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black American recording figure. Vital status: DECEASED — 18 September 1970, London, England, age 27 (Britannica). Tribute treatment.. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Electric Ladyland (1968) was his only No. 1 album on the Billboard 200; the Experience scored three UK Top 10 singles in 1967; inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 — Wikipedia, accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Library of Congress holdings and Wikimedia Commons portraiture of Hendrix from 1967–1970 press and performance photography; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5811-jimi-hendrix.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio; the subject's recordings are third-party copyrighted material). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings are third-party )
Sources
- Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Jimi Hendrix" — born 27 November 1942, Seattle; died 18 September 1970, London; American rock guitarist, singer and composer who fused blues, jazz, rock and soul and redefined the electric guitar; featured career of four years — https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jimi-Hendrix (primary source · build store)
- Wikipedia, "Jimi Hendrix" — Chitlin' Circuit work with the Isley Brothers and Little Richard; London move 1966 and the Experience with Redding and Mitchell; three UK Top 10 hits; Monterey 1967; Electric Ladyland his only No. 1 Billboard 200 album; Woodstock 1969 and Isle of Wight 1970 headlines; Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction 1992 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Hendrix (build store)
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