Jimi Hendrix is the most influential electric guitarist in the history of music!
Jimmy Hendrix performed at Woodstock didn't he?
Yes, he and Billy Cox from the Band of Gypsys performed at Woodstock.  Wish I was old enough to have attended!
Me too, my favorite Hendrix tune is "Hey Joe"
I like Purple Haze, because it sounds like a mix of blue and Eastern Music with all that sound processing he did.
Hendrix was inspired musically by American rock and roll and electric blues
Yeah, but that transformed into Heavy Metal, with blues rock and psychedelic rock.  That's when all the great guitar solos started.
Hendrix was the recipient of several music awards during his lifetime and posthumously
He died so young from an illness assumed to be influenza-related.  If we had flu shots back then, imagine what else he could have done!
1968, Rolling Stone declared him the Performer of the Year.Then in 1970, Guitar Player named him the Rock Guitarist of the Year