As Actor
Dance with the Devil
1997
6.5
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Acting
Birth date
July 18, 1929
Birth place
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Death date
February 12, 2000
Biography
Jalacy "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Famed chiefly for his powerful, operatic vocal delivery and wildly theatrical performances of songs such as "I Put a Spell on You" (1956), he sometimes used macabre props onstage, making him an early pioneer of shock rock.
