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How Did Elvis Changed America

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On January 8th, 1935 a rock and roll super star was born. As Elvis grew up he was introduced into all kinds of music. As a young child, he sang at his church and preformed in his churches gospel group. Elvis won a talent show at Humes high school. Elvis cut his first demo at sun studio in 1953. Elvis Presley changed the way people thought about music because when he preformed he included everyone in his presentations. As he sung he brought whites and blacks together to sing. Elvis sang multiple genres of music he went from country, rockablitily, R&B, and gospel. Elvis was a very talented man. Elvis made donations from his own time that helped America through a mid life crises. Before Elvis became a solo actor he was a group with some other guys. They were rejected a performance that they really wanted to preform at, Elvis really wanted to give up at that moment, and he wanted to go back to trucking, but they figured it out and got another place to preform and he didn't give up, just because of that one rejection. …show more content…

He got that nickname from multiple reasons. A man named “DJ Alan Freed” gave him the name. Also he got the name from his looks, sneer, and his moves. Mr. Presley didn’t write his own music. He was an interpretive artist, not a creative one. He refused to write his own music no matter what anyone told him. In 1960 Elvis was sent overseas and his music career had to be put on hold. When he got home it was like nothing ever happened he jumped right back into working on music. Another big thing Elvis was knows for doing is he opened a mass audience for blacks that were rejected the pleasure to do what they loves and what they wanted to do the most. And that's why Elvis was a very good man. He was an icon. Elvis was the force that brought it all

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