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Louis Armstrong

(associate press) Born in New Orleans on July 4, 1900 Louis Armstrong loved jazz even as a child. Louis lived in a house with his mother and sister. He never knew his father due to the divorce of his parents when he was a child. He did spend a lot of time with his grandmother who often took him to work with her. Lois spent 18 months in a home for troubled youth after being arrested for shooting off a gun to celebrate New Years. media type="file" key="loui singing.WAV" width="300" height="50" align="center"

Louis's stay at Jones Home for Colored Waifs when he was only 11 is what started his love for music. While at the school Louis learned to play the horn. After his realase from the school he started playing in a band with others who enjoyed jazz. Together Louis Armstrong, Joe Oliver, and Jelly Roll Morton changed the way music was played and help to transform jazz music into what it is today.

//Louis Armstrong//. Biography. com, A & E Television. 2011.