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Ellis Hooks (born 1974) is an American soul blues and electric blues singer and songwriter, who has released six albums to date.〔 The Allmusic journalist, Thom Jurek, noted that Hooks " touches upon Wilson Pickett, Sam Cooke, and Otis Redding, but feels like one of the gritty New York streets Hooks has busked upon." ==Biography== Hooks was born in Bay Minette, Alabama, United States,〔 to a Cherokee mother and an African American father, who was a Baptist raised sharecropper. He was the thirteenth of sixteen children. By the age of fourteen, Hooks had heard secular music on the radio and left his strict upbringing. Subsequently hitchhiking across the United States, Hooks also travelled around Europe, residing in Paris and Amsterdam, before relocating to New York in his mid-twenties. After busking on the streets of the city, by accident he met the record producer, Jon Tiven, who produced Hooks debut album, ''Undeniable''. Hooks secured headline status at the BBC's World Music Festival in 2003, and opened for Terence Trent D'Arby. Hooks also performed with Carla Thomas at the Montreux Jazz Festival. His 2003 album, ''Up Your Mind'', was nominated for a Blues Music Award. ''Uncomplicated'' (2004) was noted by one reviewer as "somehow both connects with the past while pointing ahead to the future". ''The Hand of God'' (2005) was recorded in New York and Nashville, Tennessee, and had five of its tracks mixed by Dan Penn.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Artists : Ellis Hooks )〕 His next recording, ''Godson of Soul'', was also produced by Jon Tiven, and included contributions from Steve Cropper and Wayne Jackson. Hooks' most recent release was ''Another Saturday Morning'', which was issued in July 2007. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ellis Hooks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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