Louis Armstrong was born in New Orleans to a very poor black family. The father left the family shortly after Luis was born. The mother was engaged in prostitution. Until the age of five, Luisa was raised by her grandmother. He started attending a local school at the age of six. Soon he met the Karnovskii family, Jews who had emigrated from Lithuania (Vilkija), who fed him and gave him work.
A difficult childhood had a great influence on his music. He learned to play the cornet in a juvenile correctional facility (he was jailed for shooting his stepfather's gun into the sky on New Year's Eve 1912), and a little later Louis Armstrong began playing the cornet-related trumpet, and began singing after becoming famous as a trumpeter. in 1922 Louis Armstrong went to Chicago, this was the beginning of his professional career. He quickly became one of the most famous jazz artists in his native country, and now his name is one of the best known around the world, becoming a symbol of jazz. Since 1929 performed with ensembles in the United States, and in 1932 performed the works for the first time in London.
Louis Armstrong was highly regarded by listeners and jazz critics alike (in 1952 Down Beat jazz magazine voted him Artist of the Year). in 1964 and in 1972 won Grammy Awards.
