Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Birthday: 7/18/1929
Deathday: 2/12/2000
Place of birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Fame for: Acting

Biography

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.