Lucille jeter hendrix biography

This piece, excerpted and condensed from the first six chapters of "Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix," by Charles R. Cross (Hyperion Books, August ), tells the story of Jimi's youth in Seattle.

JIMI HENDRIX WAS born the day after Thanksgiving, , in King County Hospital, later called Harborview.

At the time of Jimi's birth, Seattle was slowly emerging as one of the major western port cities, and in the process was becoming a destination for migrating African-American workers as well.

Jimi Hendrix - Rock Legend, Age, Married, Children, Death

The Seattle census reported only African Americans, less than 1 percent of the population. But by the city's black population had ballooned to 15,, representing Seattle's largest racial minority.

When Jimi was born, his father, Al, was a year-old private in the U.S. Army, stationed at Fort Rucker, Ala. Jimi's mother, Lucille Jeter Hendrix, was only 17 and still a Seattle schoolgirl.

They married on March 31, , at the King County Courthouse in a quick ceremony Beyond A Broken Boyhood - The Seattle Times ZAFUH