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SCREAMIN’ JAY HAWKINS

The Rising water

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
released "I Put a Spell On
You" in 1956. The song,
that never made it to the
charts when it was
released, would eventually
be covered several
hundred times by the likes
of Nina Simone, Credence
Clearwater Revival, and
Marilyn Manson; Jeff Beck
and Joss Stone’s version
even received a Grammy "Original Shock Rock and Theatrical Rock Legend Screamin' Jay Hawkins has come
nomination in 2010. back from the dead. His music is alive and well". Guitarist Mike Armando has
formed the Resurrection of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins band bringing those crazy days
back to the stage once again.
It was selected as one of Hawkins interpreted his The Resurrection of Screamin’ Jay
the Rock and Roll Hall of past with a poetic license to Hawkins Band is a tribute project
Fame’s 500 Songs that kill, a magical amalgam of that aims to revive the music and
Shaped Rock and Roll and his own making—creating theatrical performance style of
was added to Rolling disparate stories the legendary shock-rock artist
Stones’ list of The 500 alternatively terrible or Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. This band
Greatest Songs of All sympathetic at his will. His not only performs his classic
Time. Hawkins’ music and music and theatrical stage songs but also recreates the
outlandish onstage act has come back to life unique stage presence and
persona inspired and the Resurrection of theatrical elements that made
generations of musicians Screamin' Jay Hawkins Band Hawkins famous. Shakar
after him. And yet, little is is doing their part in “TheRealShakar”Brumfield is the
known of the man and keeping this great music vocalist for the group and an
little can be taken at face alive.. actor from NYC who portrays
value. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins.