Facts
- Louis Armstrong was born in a poor area of New Orleans called “the Battlefield” on August 4, 1901.
- Grew up in a poor area and to have a job to support his family.
- Taught himself how to play the cornet and was musically gifted as a child.
- In 1923, Louis Armstrong and the rest of the members of the band from King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band record their first recording at Gennett Studios in Richmond, Indiana on April 5th.
- Louis Armstrong had won a Grammy for the song "Hello, Dolly!".
- In 1999, "What A Wonderful World", was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
- One of his nicknames is "Satchmo".
- In the 1960s Louis Armstrong became known as a music legend and one of the well-known name in American jazz for his trumpet playing and singing.
- Armstrong had introduced singing or scatting to jazz and he was excellent at it.
- Armstrong was in movies like the movie mentioned in the picture of the movie poster on the left.
- He was in more than 30 films and was a superb actor.
- The name of the film on the right is New Orleans.