Family Origins

Hendrix was born Johnny Allen Hendrix in Seattle, Washington, the son of Al Hendrix and Lucille Jeter Hendrix. His father, after returning from military service in World War II, legally renamed him James Marshall Hendrix. His mother was an alcoholic and died of cirrhosis when Jimi was 15, providing Hendrix with a musical muse which he would later express in his songs, for example, "Little Wing".

Both of Jimi's paternal grandparents were vaudeville performers who settled in Vancouver, British Columbia, where his father, Al Hendrix, was born. Al relocated to Seattle, where he met and married Lucille Jeter. Jimi was close to his paternal grandmother Nora Rose Moore, the daughter of a Cherokee father and a mulatto mother, who instilled in him a strong sense of pride about his Native American ancestry.

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