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Louis Armstrong was raised by his grandmother until the age of five, when he was returned to his mother. [10] Armstrong spent his youth in poverty in a rough neighborhood known as The Battlefield, [ 11 ] on the southern section of Rampart Street . [ 12 ]
Lillian Hardin Armstrong (née Hardin; February 3, 1898 – August 27, 1971) was an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, singer, and bandleader. She was the second wife of Louis Armstrong, with whom she collaborated on many recordings in the 1920s.
Louise Armstrong (March 17, 1937 – August 10, 2008) [1] was a published author of numerous adult and children's books. She joined the women's movement in New York City in 1972 and began researching father-daughter incest. [ 2 ]
Brandon Louis Armstrong, the music giant’s great-great nephew, makes his Broadway debut playing multiple parts in a new musical about the jazz legend’s life. NEW YORK (AP) — The new stage ...
Phoebe Jacobs was married three times; her third husband Lou Jacobs pre-deceased her. She had two children, a son, Jerry Fella, and a daughter, Susan Devens as well as grandchildren, Chris and Seth Kunin, and great-grandchildren, Jacob Kunin, Kayla Kunin, Phoebe Kunin, and Zachary Kunin.
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.
The Louis Armstrong House is a historic house museum at 34-56 107th Street in the Corona neighborhood of Queens in New York City. [3] [4] It was the home of Louis Armstrong and his wife Lucille Wilson from 1943 until his death in 1971. Lucille gave ownership of it to the city of New York in order to create a museum focused on her husband.
In 1966, Bobby Darin, Louis Armstrong, and Herb Alpert all charted in the United States and Canada with their cover records of the musical's title song. Eydie Gormé had a huge success with her recording of "If He Walked into My Life", [35] for which she received a 1967 Grammy Award for Best Female Vocal Performance. "We Need a Little Christmas ...