Salih Hashim
10/28/17
Period 5
Musician of Harlem Renaissance Louis Armstrong was born into a poor poverty in New Orleans. As a young boy, he had a very difficult childhood after his father abandoned the family, which he dropped out of school and helped his mother to provide for the family. Louis was a highly talented singer blessed with a powerful gravelly voice and he was one of the first African American entertainers to be highly popular among the white and black society. Louis Armstrong was one of the most influential artist in history of jazz music, he was known for his improvisation skills and abilities of the method of playing the trumpet and cornet. When Louis discovered that he was naturally gifted in music, he established himself as a respected player of jazz music over a period of years. When Louis was a young boy, he had some issue problems with his family, and had to go through this difficult times; his family was very poor and his father abandoned them which everything fall on his mother 's shoulder. She often had to resort to prostitution to provide for the family and she took all the responsibilities as the head leader of the family. Louis couldn 't keep up with his school because there is so much going on at the moment of his life so he decided to dropped out of school in order to work and augment his mother’s meager income. Singing became his part of his life and it 's what he decided to do for his his living, so he started to sing in the streets