Jimi Hendrix Accomplishments

He was not only the world’s greatest guitar player, he was a legend. He was born on November 27, 1942 in Seattle, Washington. His original name was James Marshall Hendrix, later changing it to the famously known name, Jimi Hendrix. He grew up loving everything about music. When he was a teenager, he first taught himself how to play the guitar. He would sit in his room for hours playing with different cords and trying new things. While playing different cords, he would add lyrics to them as he went. Growing up, he didn’t have much of a support system. His father had left him, his mother and other two brothers, Leon and Joseph when he was young. He didn’t see his mother much either before she had passed in 1958 when Hendrix was only 16. Following …show more content…
He loved everything about it – the cords, the way it sounded, everything. It touched him in a way that no other music did. When he was only 14 years old, Jimi went to see Elvis Presley and that is when he knew he wanted to play the guitar. Throughout the following year, he saved enough money to make his dream come true and went and bought a guitar. With his talent, he went on to play for two bands, the “Rocking Kings” and the “Tomcats.” In 1961, Jimi decided to join the United States Army. He was stationed at Fort Ord to achieve his training. That is where he became a paratrooper. Even while serving in the Army, he still found time to do what he did best, play the guitar. He formed a band with others while in the Army called the “The Kings Casuals.” The following year, he left due to an injury to his ankle. He continued to follow his dream. He went and played back up for a few groups such as “Little Richard”, “Sam Cooke”, and “The Isley Brothers.” Upon not finding success in any of those, he created his own band called “Jimmy James and the Blue Flames.” They performed at various different places in New York City’s Greenwich Village neighborhood. In mid-1966, Jimmy took a huge step forward in his career after meeting a man named Chas Chandler. Chandler was a former member of the “Animals” and later became Hendrix’s

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