Louis Armstrong's Biography

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Louis Armstrong Biography

Louis Armstrong was born August 4, 1901. His parents were Mary Albert and William Armstrong. He had one sister and he name was Beatrice Armstrong Collins. Louis Armstrong attended Baptist and Catholic churches and Baptist Sunday school as a child. He had to overcome a lot of segregation but he also did it very well. He was skilled at singing playing the trumpet. Louis did attend school so he did get some education. Louis had four wives and two children. During his career, he developed a way of playing jazz, as an instrumentalist and a vocalist, which has had an impact on all musicians to follow recorded hit songs for five decades, and his music is still heard today on television and radio and in films, wrote two

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