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Little Satchmo is a 2022 documentary film about Louis Armstrong's secret daughter, Sharon Preston-Folta. The film is distributed by PBS International [1] and won an EMMY Award (2023 Outstanding Historical Documentary, Southeast). [2] It is directed by John Alexander [3] and produced by Lea Umberger and JC Guest.
Armstrong is believed to have been born in New Orleans on August 4, 1901, but the date has been heavily debated. Armstrong himself often claimed he was born on July 4, 1900.
Sharon Preston-Folta is a senior account executive at WUSF Public Media in Tampa, Florida. She also happens to be the The post ‘Little Satchmo,’ a doc on Louis Armstrong’s secret child ...
Louis Armstrong, as Zulu King during 1949's Mardi Gras in New Orleans [5] Clarence Ashley, 1910s-1940s singer and blackface comedian in traveling medicine shows [6] Ant and Dec, in old Saturday Night Takeaway sketches [7] Fred Astaire, in Swing Time (1936) [8] and in Easter Parade (1948) Gene Autry [6] Dan Aykroyd, in Trading Places (1983) [9]
The younger Armstrong is making his Broadway debut in “A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical,” playing multiple parts, including a piano player, a teacher and as an understudy for ...
"Uncle Satchmo's Lullaby" (also known under its German title "Onkel Satchmo's Lullaby") is a 1959 song, written by Erwin Halletz and Olaf Bradtke, and sung by Louis Armstrong and German singer Gabriele Clonisch, better known as Gabriele, who was 12 years old at the time.
In a way, James Monroe Iglehart feels a special kinship to Louis Armstrong. The Tony winner, 50, steps into the famed jazz singer’s shoes in the new Broadway musical A Wonderful World, which ...
These techniques were popular at the time in what was known as "hot" jazz, epitomized by James's idol Louis Armstrong, but somewhat fell out of favor by the 1950s with the advent of "cool" jazz. [23] James's rigorous regime of practice as a child resulted in an exceptional technical proficiency in the more classical techniques of range ...