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Elvis Presley
Life Time
8 January 1935 - 16 August 1977
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At one time, the popularity of this singer around the world was so great that it was enough to pronounce only the name Elvis, and immediately it became clear who was in question. Echoes of this adoration have reached our days. Elvis Aron Presley was born in Mississippi on January 8, 1935. Since childhood, the boy was interested in music. He wandered around the Negro quarter of Memphis, where he moved with his parents, and noticed the slightest features of the performing skills of musicians. There
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At one time, the popularity of this singer around the world was so great that it was enough to pronounce only the name Elvis, and immediately it became clear who was in question. Echoes of this adoration have reached our days.
Elvis Aron Presley was born in Mississippi on January 8, 1935. Since childhood, the boy was interested in music. He wandered around the Negro quarter of Memphis, where he moved with his parents, and noticed the slightest features of the performing skills of musicians. There he acquired a manner of extravagant dress, which distinguished him from most pop stars.
Elvis Presley recorded his first album in 1953. A year later, the singer toured the country and collected full halls.
No stranger to Elvis and the fame of the movie actor. During his life, he starred in 32 films, the first of which was
Love me tenderly. (1956). Subsequently, several more films with the participation of the musician, which received the recognition of the audience: “Follow the dream” (1962), “Holidays in the harem” (1965), “Follow the dream”
speedway (1968), Trouble with Girls (1969) and others.
In the 70s of the last century, Elvis Presley toured a lot and, as a result, received huge fees. One of his concerts in Hawaii was the first in the world to be broadcast via satellite.
To take a break from the busy rhythm of life, the singer was forced to take sedatives, which led to addiction, and then to health problems. Cardiac arrest was the official cause of Elvis' death on August 16, 1977. The singer's ashes rest at his Graceland estate in Memphis. There are still versions according to which the singer did not die, but continued to live until the mid-90s of the XX century.