Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Nacimiento : 1929-07-18, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Muerte : 2000-02-12

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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.

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Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Películas

57 Screaming Kids
Himself (archive footage)
Screaming Jay Hawkins' 57 known children come together for a reunion - his dying wish.
Peut-être
Chanteur Bouge
Arthur is invited to a New Year's Eve party to celebrate the year 2000. His girlfriend Lucie would like a baby from him but he refuses. Through the ceiling of the toilets, he discovers a passage leading to this futurist Paris. There, he meets an old man Ako who affirms he is his son and that he wants to exist. Otherwise he will vanish into the air. Arthur is still hesitant because his life is an unfulfilled one: a has a little lucrative job, is uncertain about his future and things are getting out of hand when Ako discovers the passage and interferes in the party.
Perdita Durango
Adolfo
Romeo Dolorosa y su amante Perdita Durango rinden un siniestro culto, para el cual necesitan sacrificios humanos. En un itinerario físico-amoral con rumbo a Las Vegas secuestrarán a una pareja de jóvenes.
Redada en Harlem
Año 1956. Jackson es un joven de color muy inocente y religioso. En su camino se cruza una mujer que, aparte de iniciarle en las artes del amor, llevará consigo un arcón proviniente del robo de una mina. Como todos los delincuentes de Harlem la persiguen, y se esconde en casa de Jackson, que se ha enamorado perdidamente de ella...
Mystery Train
Night Clerk
En Memphis, Tennessee, en el transcurso de una sola noche, el Hotel Arcade, dirigido por un excéntrico empleado nocturno y un despistado botones, recibe la visita de una joven pareja japonesa que viaja en busca de las raíces del rock; una mujer italiana de luto que se tropieza con una parlanchina muchacha que intenta salir de la ciudad; y un cómico trío de ladrones accidentales que buscan un lugar donde esconderse.
Two Moon Junction
Blues Club Singer
Una joven debutante sureña abandona temporalmente su estilo de vida elegante y su próximo matrimonio semi-arreglado para tener una aventura lujuriosa y erótica con un vagabundo rudo que trabaja en un carnaval local.
Joey
A high-school guitarist contends with an unhappy home environment while working to get his band noticed by a music promoter.
American Hot Wax
Self
This is the story loosely based on Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed, who introduced rock'n'roll to teenage American radio audiences in the 1950s. Freed was a source of great controversy: criticized by conservatives for corrupting youth with the "devil's music"; hated by racists for promoting African American music for white consumption; persecuted by law enforcement officials and finally brought down by the "payola" scandals.
Mister Rock and Roll
Self
Alan Freed is "Mr. Rock and Roll" as he sets out to prove that rock 'n' roll doesn't cause juvenile delinquency. Terrific original rock 'n' roll legends perform their classics!