Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Birthday: July 18, 1929 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Deathday: February 12, 2000
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 s...hock rock.
