Biography

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).
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Has worked as a harmonica player with the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Megadeth, and Bruce Hornsby; among many others.

Was hired as a session musician to play harmonica on 'That What is Not'. Wood plays on the tracks 'Good Things', 'Love Hope' and 'Covered'. The tracks were recorded at the end of 1991 at Eldorado Recording Studios, Hollywood; with producer Dave Jerden.

The front man vocalist and guitarist for "Imperial Crowns", Jimmie Wood also plays harmonica.

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.