Official Website: Photos, Blog, Videos, Interactive, Chat and more. - ClubDevo.com. Devo - Gut Feeling / (Slap Your Mammy) [2001 remaster] HQ. Screamin' Jay Hawkins. Jalacy Hawkins (July 18, 1929 – February 12, 2000) — known as Screamin' Jay Hawkins — was an American musician, singer, and actor.
Famed chiefly for his powerful, operatic vocal delivery and wildly theatrical performances of songs such as "I Put a Spell on You", Hawkins sometimes used macabre props onstage, making him an early pioneer of shock rock.[1] Early career[edit] Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Hawkins studied classical piano as a child and learned guitar in his twenties.[2] His initial goal was to become an opera singer (Hawkins has cited Paul Robeson as his musical idol in interviews),[3] but when his initial ambitions failed he began his career as a conventional blues singer and pianist.
Hawkins was an avid and formidable boxer. Screamin' Jay Hawkins, I Put a Spell on You.