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Louis Armstrong

(1901 - 1971)

Growing up in turn-of-the-century New Orleans, Louis Armstrong learned to play cornet while at a home for juvenile delinquents. In the 1930s he toured America and Europe, becoming a dominant influence on the swing era and one of the originators of scat singing. The bandleader, comedian, and film star died at the age of seventy-one.

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