Prince Boger Nelson was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and actor. He was born on June 7,1958, in a small town in Minneapolis, Minnesota . Prince was the second youngest out of all his eight siblings. At a young age , Prince became very intrigued by music. By age ten he was already trying to teach Himself the piano, the drums and even the guitar.
Prince quit high school at the age sixteen (Source #1). In 2001 Prince married his second wife Manuela Testolini. Their marriage ended in 2006. After the divorce he was dating Bria Valente (Source #1) Music Career Prince was one of the best singers of his time, and he could do anything and everything he was a,
Kameron Backie Tupac Shakur Tupac Shakur was born in New York on June 16, 1971 to Afeni Shakur and Billy Garland. His mom was in jail for doing drugs and his father had nothing to do with him until he was an adult. Tupac went to the Baltimore School for the Arts. Tupac took ballet and dance classes.
Joe King Oliver was born in New Orleans, 1885. He spent his youth as a trombonist playing in brass bands. During this time, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, and Louis Armstrong, were all born in New Orleans. All of them learned and played different instruments and had inspiration from the bands that had started playing this new genre of music. Joe King Oliver invited Armstrong to join his band in Chicago along with Sidney.
Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 14, 1900. Growing up as a child Copland found himself attending a few different musicals such as New York symphony and Brooklyn Academy of music. Like many other young musicians, he was attracted to the classical history and musicians of Europe. In 1906 Copland was attending public school 111 in Brooklyn. By 1909 he was already making up songs on the piano.
Prince is a director who was born on January 30, 1928. Prince, now eighty-seven, was also born in New York. His mother was a housewife and his father was a stockbroker, but when he was very young his parents divorced and amazingly his mother remarried another stockbroker. Prince was an only child in an upper-class family that was German-Jewish. Prince had a father named Milton Prince, Prince’s mother was named Blanche Stern .At
Many will agree that he was what made jazz unique. “Duke Ellington was born April 29, 1899, in Washington , D.C” (Biography.com Editors). “His parents are James Edward and Daisy Ellington” (Encyclopedia of World Biography). Duke grew up very religious. His mother was a Baptist and his father a Methodist.
Louis Armstrong was born into a long generation of slaves and farm workers on August 4, 1901 in the state of Louisiana; although some sources say he was born in the year of 1900. Willie Armstrong (his father) left Mary Ann Albert (his mother) before he was born and when he was born his mother left him to the care of his grandmother Lucy Armstrong. He had a sister
Johnson was born in Florence, South Carolina on March 13, 1901. Alice Smoot and Henry Johnson are the parents of Johnson, sadly his father became disabled while working as a railroad fireman. Johnson dropped out of school high school to support his parents and four other siblings. His dream career was to become an artist. Seventeen year old Johnson moved to New York to pursue the dream without being disrupted by the Jim Crow laws.
He was born in Baltimore, Maryland on September 20, 1878. He was born to an alcoholic liquor salesman and a strong-willed mother. He was raised on the edge of poverty but exposed to the upper class’ way of life through visits with his mother’s wealthier family. When he was 10 he and his family moved from Baltimore to New York City. Growing up he would spend every moment consuming the works of Shakespeare and Percy Bysshe Shelley, developing a strong intellect.
was born January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. His father was a pastor at a local church, while his mother took care of his two siblings, Willie and Alfred. As King began to get older, he “attended Booker T. Washington High School” (www.biography.com). Martin Luther King Jr. was exceptional throughout his studies and even “skipped ninth and eleventh grade...attending college when he was only fifteen years old” (www.biography.com). After completing his master's degree, King “began his doctorate at Boston College, where he met Coretta Scott” (www.biography.com).
Throughout the music industry there have been a lot of young musical artists that have come and gone, but there is one person who will always stand out, even if they were not born during the time when he was alive. This artist has won over the hearts of many with the words he said and the songs he created. This artist is none other than Tupac Shakur. Tupac Amaru Shakur was born on June 16, 1971 in the town of East Harlem, Manhattan, NYC. Tupac lived with his mother Afeni Shakur, his stepfather Mutulu Shakur, his older brother Mopreme.
Charles Christopher Parker Jr. was born on August 29, 1920, in Kansas City, Kansas. He moved with his parent to Missouri in 1927. As a teenager Charles discovered his musical talent through public school. He began playing the saxophone when he was thirteen, quitting school when he was fifteen to become a full time musician with the alto saxophone. During the years 1935-1939, Charles played in many nightclubs with other local jazz and blue bands touring Chicago and New York (Charlie Parker Biography).
The Prince evoked so much discussion and controversy because of how he stayed in power. A lot of people found it disturbing how the Prince stayed in power as a ruler. An example of this can be about how the Prince said he was going to take down the King. The Prince said there are a lot of ways to take down a king and to deal with the Kings family. You have to kill the monarchy, so you can be the one ruler.
Armstrong was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1901, even though he sometimes said later in his life that he was born on July 4, 1900. He was raised by his mother and grandmother after his father, who was a factory worker, left the family while Armstrong was still a child. His family was very poor, and as a child Armstrong worked many odd jobs to help support the family. Armstrong was surrounded by music while working and playing in the streets of New Orleans. Since he could not afford an instrument, he learned to sing and joined a vocal quartet that sang on street corners for a little extra money.
