Music during the Great migration
Louis Armstrong was an American jazz trumpeter and singer born in 1901 in Louisiana and died in 1071. He had grown up in a very poor family and droppes out of school at the age of eleven, throwing himself into music. “Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine—I look right in the heart of good old New Orleans... It has given me something to live for."1 One of the songs he had played was Go Down Moses.
Ella Jenkins is an american folk singer born the year of 1924 in Missouri. She grew up in Chicago, but went to San Francisco State University, only moving back to Chicago after graduating to write songs for children. One of her famous songs is Wade In The Water.
Willie Dixon was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer born the year of 1915 in Mississippi and died in 1992. The year of 1936, he left his home for Chicago where he started boxing, only to quit a year later. Starting in 1939, Dixon became well known, playing many different songs: The Seventh Son was one of the many songs he had preformed.
1: Bergreen, Laurence (1997). Louis Armstrong, An Extravagant Life, New York, Broadway Books, p. 6
References: www.wikipedia.org
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