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Louis Armstrong Timeline
Music assessment task
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⟶ Updated 18 Aug 2017 ⟶
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Louis Armstrong was born on the 4th of August, 1901, in New Orleans, Louisiana
Armstrongs father abandoned his family and his mother left the children with their grandmother
He moved back to live with his mother, while attending the Fisk School for Boys
Times were hard and his mother turned to prostitution
Louis Armstrong dropped out of the Fisk School for Boys and started to earn a meagre living singing on the streets of New Orleans with a quartet. A musician named Joe "King" Oliver taught Louis to play the cornet
Louis started cornet lessons from professor Peter Davis
Louis worked as a coalman during the day and at night he played in a dance hall job
He played brass bands on the riverboats and steam boats of New Orleans
March 19th, Louis married Daisy Parker and they adopted a 3- year-old mentally disabled boy who was his cousins son
Louis and daisy got divorced
Armstrong joined an influential hot jazz band
He formed his own band which ended up going on tour
Louis appeared in his first movie, shortly after he was convicted of possession of marjiuana
Armstrong started recording records with well- known musicians
Louis became the first black person to host a sponsored, national radio broadcast
WW2 begins
Louis married his fourth wife
WW2 ends and so does the public taste for swing music and Louis formed a six piece group
He played at a concert with more than 100,000 of his fans attending
Armstrong was hospitalized due to a heart attack
He recorded his last hit, "What a Wonderful World"
One of his songs won him a Grammy
Louis Armstrong died on July 6th, 1971 (aged 69) in New York
