Jimmie Wood
Height:
178 cm
Jimmie Wood is a musician, singer and actor best known as the front man and harmonica player for his band the Imperial Crowns.Jimmie grew up in Houston, Texas, where he was a teenage sensation. Later, he met a future band member and guitarist J.J. Holiday and left Houston, where they formed "Imperial Crowns" with Michael Barsimanto (drums...
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Jimmie Wood is a musician, singer and actor best known as the front man and harmonica player for his band the Imperial Crowns.Jimmie grew up in Houston, Texas, where he was a teenage sensation. Later, he met a future band member and guitarist J.J. Holiday and left Houston, where they formed "Imperial Crowns" with Michael Barsimanto (drums) and Keith "Foxxe" Karman (bass guitar). Jimmie has recorded with artists from across the musical spectrum, from Bruce Springsteen to Johnny Rotten (with PIL), from Gladys Knight to Megadeth, international superstar Ofra Haza, Etta James, Bruce Hornsby, Cheap Trick and Chuck E. Weiss, among others. He's sung and played harmonica on dozens of movie scores and TV commercials.As an actor, Wood has appeared in the movies "Suckers" and "Girl in 3D" as well as on the television series "Rugrats," "Real Monsters" and "The Wild Thornberrys." He also provided a menacing and howling voice for transformer Bonecrusher in mega hit Transformers (2007).His songs were included for such movie soundtracks as L.A. Story (1991), The Runner (1999), Freeway 2 (1999) and The Banger Sisters (2002). Show less «
On how he meet a band member J.J. Holiday: Don Robey really wanted to sign me to his label, Back Beat, and I didn't wanna do it. He started ...Show more »
On how he meet a band member J.J. Holiday: Don Robey really wanted to sign me to his label, Back Beat, and I didn't wanna do it. He started to go for bad on me, so I pushed his ass down the stairs at the 'The Brass Peacock'. His thugs were gonna put me down for keeps, when I heard a voice say, "Be cool everybody". That was the first time I ever laid eyes on J.J. Holiday and he was holding a cannon in each hand. Those dudes backed off, we got in J.J.'s '47 Mercury, and hit the road back to LA. Show less «
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