Hey Kids, Meet Louis Armstrong | Free Jazz Artist Biography (Digital Print)

from the Jazz Greats Index

About Jazz Artist ‘Louis Armstrong’

Louis Armstrong was born in New Orleans, the "Birthplace of Jazz." Soon after Louis was born Louis' father abandoned his mother and Louis and his little sister Beatrice were sent to live with their grandmother. At the age of five, Louis and his sister returned to live with their mother. Later Louis was enrolled in the Fisk School for Boys and worked to help his mother by delivering newspapers and hauling coal. Read more...

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