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Jimi Hendrix

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March 9, 2016

Jim Hendrix
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Jimi Hendrix, The Royal Albert Hall, London, Feb. 18, 1969. Hendrix, who spoke proudly of his Cherokee grandmother, was one of many famous African Americans in the 1960s who cited family traditions linking them to Native ancestry.


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