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Screamin' Jay Hawkins

American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, film producer, and boxer (1929-2000).

Born July 18th, 1929 in Cleveland.

Died February 12th, 2000 at 70 years old in Neuilly-sur-Seine (surgical complications).

Occupations
actor, composer, pianist, recording artist, singer, songwriter

It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Oliver Sacks