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Louis Armstrong

Louis "Satchmo (Satchelmouth)" Armstrong was born August 4, 1901 in New Orleans, Louisiana (the birthplace of jazz). Putting together the facts around his birth and childhood is difficult because what is known depends mostly on what he later told people. He was raised by his grandmother, Josephine Armstrong, as an infant. At the time of his birth his father walked out on him and his mother. Louis spoke with anger about his dad when he mentioned him at all. He hated his father so much that he told reporter Larry King, "I was touring Europe when my father died. Didn't go to his funeral, didn't send nothing. Why should I? He never had no time for me or Mary Ann (his mother)." (Collier 19) Armstrong had a genuine affection for his mother, even though se was very undependable, leaving her son to take care of himself and his sister for days at a time. Louis grew up in a tough area in New Orleans knows as "The Battle Field" where gun play and knife fights were common.

At the age of seven he moved to black Storyville. It consisted of dance halls, honky tonks, and brothels. Like London's Soho, it was an entertainment district. He grew up with music all around him. He could hear music outside his house when he woke up and whe




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