Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong was born on August 4,1901. his nick name was Satchmo. he was an american jazz trumpeter and a singer. he was a foundational influence on jazz. he also was an influential singer, he was also greatly skilled at scat singing.louis armstrong had a difficult childhood. his father william armstrong was a factory worker, who abandoned his whole family. he was brought up by his mother mary albert armstrong and his maternal grandmother. he bought him his own cornet and he tought himself how to play the cornet. at the age of eleven he dropped out of school to join an informal group. he was sent to a reform school. there he studied music and played the cornet, and bugle in the school band. armstrong moved to chicago to join olivers band in august 1922 and made his first recordings as a member of the group in the spring of 1923. he was married to lillian harden, the pianist in the oliver band on february 5, 1924. she was the second of his four wives.