Tupac Shakur was born Tupac Amaru Shakur (Tupac means "shining serpent" in Inca) in New York City in 1971. He went on to have very successful careers as an actor & rapper. Look around the web for his career information, you know that’s not our gig. That said….…
Ricky Martin (b. December 24, 1971) was born and raised in SanJuan, Puerto Rico. As a child, he sang in the choir and performedin school plays. When he was six, he began acting in televisioncommercials. Shortly aftereward, he took professional singingand acting lessons, which paved the way for his auditions forMenudo. In 1984, when he was 12 years old, he became amember of Menudo. For the next five years, he was the leadsinger of the group, helping them become internationalsensations. Once he outgrew Menudo in 1989, he went backhome to Puerto Rico, where he completed high school. Aftergraduation, he moved to New York, where he simply relaxed forseveral months.…
Elvis Aron Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi on January 8, 1935 to Vernon and Gladys Presley. He lived in Tupelo until aged 13 when he moved to Memphis with his family. It was there were Elvis got his first guitar and decided to make music his life. In 1954, Elvis went to Sun Studios to record a record for his mother as a birthday present. During this session, Elvis was heard by Sun Studios owner, Sam Phillips. He was signed to the Memphis label and released his first single “That’s Alright, Mama” and “Blue Moon of Kentucky”.…
Scott Joplin was born in Linden Texas April 1 1860. As a young child Joplin was eager to learn everything about music. When Joplin was in the first grade his teacher gave piano and singing lessons to Joplin. While Joplin was in his teenage years he moved to Sedalia, Missouri began playing in bars and in dance…
Johnny cash was born on February 26, 1932, he lived on a farm in Kingsland, Arkansas. He spent most of his early life on field work. Johnny started writing songs at the age of 12, he then began to love music. In 1950, Cash graduated high school and was enlisted to the U.S. Air Force.He then would go to trained in San Antonio, Texas. Soon after he met his Future Wife Vivian Liberto. He was then sent to West Germany was a radio intercept officer, listening to Soviet radio traffic.…
What inspired his love for music was his faith in God and the gospel songs he heard in church. However, it was not until 1954 that Presley released his first single under the record label owner, Sam Phillips. The single “That’s All Right” as well as his first Number 1 single,—under RCA Records—“Heartbreak Hotel” jumpstarted his career and bought his name into the attention of the public. His unique music styles and one of a kind dance moves were what ultimately set him apart from other musicians of his time, and it was with these characteristics that Presley built not only a music career, but a film career as well. Some of his films—which were sometimes huge hits—include “Love Me Tender,” “Blue Hawaii,” and “Viva Las Vegas.” It was not just fame and wealth that Presley was introduced to though. In the years that followed, it was noted that he faced an exceptional amount of personal obstacles. These included the divorce to wife Priscilla Beaulieu, custody battle over their daughter Lisa Marie, as well as a drug addiction and weight problem. This drug addiction eventually led to Elvis Presley’s death on August 16, 1977.…
s major influences were Gospel and the Blues: predominantly African American genres [2]. So here we have this young white performer, often called the "King of Rock and Roll", who is loved by many white Americans, using genres that have their roots in the black community. So basically Elvis, "whose musical and visual performance idiom owed much to African American sources achieved the cultural acknowledgment and commercial success largely denied his black peers." [2] So while Elvis himself was said to be very supportive of the black community, many white Americans still shunned the black community. Hence, the indirect message was 'your contribution only matters if it benefits white Americans.' Not far from a slave owner's mentality: we'll…
Elvis was born on January 8, 1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi (Biography). His parents, Vernon and Gladys Presley, moved around regularly, usually because of work (Elvis Presley)(Biography). Elvis received his education from Humes High School (Ibid). He did not attend college. At…
Early rock and roll music absorbed a lot of elements of African-American music, such as blues and jazz. These black popular music elements appeared frequently in early rock and roll songs, and were favored by white youth during 1950s.…
Martin Luther King Jr was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. In high school, Martin Luther King Jr was an excellent public speaker and very smart. During high school, he skipped two grades; ninth and twelveth. At the age of fifteen, he began his college education at Morehouse. Martin Luther King Jr continued his education and became a pastor. Martin Luther King Jr became very active in the civil rights movement, which led to his assassination on April 4, 1968. Truly, Martin Luther King Jr changed this world.…
In 1981 George Strait burst onto the national scene and wanted to be a country singer and he had a new traditionalism with his country styles. He was born in Poteet and raised in Pearsall, Texas, and Strait and his brother lived with their father. Strait always helped out on the family ranch. He ignored country music in favor of the pop music of the British invasion of the 1960s. Strait is not known, but he is an exciting performers in country music, he always wanted to see a country artist, and Garth Brooks mounts his comeback tour.…
Elvis was born in East Tupelo, Mississippi, but moved and grew up in Memphis Tennessee (Kemp). Elvis grew up playing music. Elvis learned he loved to sing at his Pentecostal church in Memphis. He grew up as a poor boy that was closer to the Negro community than the white community (Kemp). This influenced his music heavily. When he was nineteen he released a cover of “That’s All Right”, a traditionally black recording artist song (Kemp). The song hit…
George Strait was born on May 18th, 1952 in Poteet, Texas. He lived on a cattle ranch near Pearsall, Texas. When he was only a child, his mother left with his sister and left Strait and his brother with her husband. When Strait was a teenager, he began his music by joining a rock and roll garage band. After he graduated high school, he enrolled in college, but soon dropped out and married his high school sweetheart, Norma Voss, in 1971. He later enlisted in the Army. He was stationed in Hawaii and began to play in an army-sponsored band called Rambling Country. On October 6, 1972, while still in Hawaii, George and Norma welcomed their first child, Jenifer.…
Gene Autry, originally Orvon Grover Autry, was born on September 29, 1907 in the small town of Tioga, Texas. By the age of five Autry had already been taking lessons on how to sing from his mother and grandfather. As a young adult, Autry worked normal jobs but always found time to sing with his guitar. It wasn 't until 1929 that Gene Autry made his original breakout into entertainment by performing on the radio. Autry married Ina May Spivey in 1932…
Elvis Aaron Presley, a Rock-N- Roll icon, was born on January 8, 1935. His parents are Vernon and Gladys Presley. Presley was born a twin, but his identical brother was stillborn. Elvis’s original middle name was Aron to resemble his stillborn twin’s middle name, but he legally changed it to Aaron as a biblical and traditional spelling. In 1953, Elvis cut his first demo at Sun Studio; he also began touring all over America. Born in rural Tupelo, Mississippi, Elvis grew to become one of the most famous icons in Rock-N-Roll history (Petersen page 1-2).…