![]() Others claim it was just because he could not get good enough grades and was unorganized. Hendrix told some reporters in the late 1960s that he had failed because people were racist there, and did not like him because he was black. Hendrix finished middle school but did not graduate from his high school, Garfield High School. He did not have lessons and learned basic tunes and improvisation from watching Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley play live. His first electric guitar was a white Supro Ozark that his father, Al Hendrix, had bought him. Soon after, at around 15, he managed to buy a proper acoustic guitar for $5 from a friend of his father. He still managed to play several tunes on it. It was a broken broomstick with one string that had been thrown away by another boy. At about the age of 14, Hendrix found his first guitar. He grew up without much money or attention his parents divorced when he was nine years old, and his mother died when he was 16. Later, his dad named him James Marshall Hendrix when he returned from the military. He was called Johnny Allen Hendrix when he was born. Jimi Hendrix was born in Seattle on November 27, 1942. ![]()
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