screamin’ jay hawkins was the most outrageous performer extant during rock’s dawn. prone to emerging out of coffins on-stage, a flaming skull named henry his constant companion, screamin’ jay was an insanely theatrical figure long before it was even remotely acceptable.
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Jalacy Hawkins (July 18, 1929, Cleveland, Ohio – February 12, 2000, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France), best known as Screamin’ Jay Hawkins was an American musician, singer, and actor. Famed chiefly for his powerful, operatic vocal delivery and wildly theatrical performances of songs such as “I Put a Spell on You”, Hawkins sometimes used macabre props onstage, making him one of the few early shock rockers. [wikipedia]
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