Conservapedia will '''drown''' in vandalism!<div style="text-align:center">I'm a conservative Republican that lives in Pennsylvania. I attended Glenn Beck's rally in Washington, D.C.</div><span style="text-decoration:blink; font-size:20px">{{PAGENAME}} has been vandalized by Willy on Wheels!</span><div style="text-align:center">I'm a conservative Republican that lives in Pennsylvania. I attended Glenn Beck's rally in Washington, D.C.</div><span style="text-decoration:blink; font-size:20px">{{PAGENAME}} has been vandalized by Willy on Wheels!</span><div style="text-align:center">I'm a conservative Republican that lives in Pennsylvania. I attended Glenn Beck's rally in Washington, D.C.</div><span style="text-decoration:blink; font-size:20px">{{PAGENAME}} has been vandalized by Willy on Wheels!</span> [[Image:Louis_armstrongLouis armstrong.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Louis Armstrong]]
'''Daniel Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong''' (August 4, 1901, New Orleans, Louisiana - July 6, 1971, New York City) one of the best-known musicians in history, and the man most responsible for transforming [[jazz]] from a regional sound to a major American art form.
==Early Lifelife==
Armstrong was born into [[poverty]] in a rundown [[New Orleans]] neighborhood on August 4, 1901. His father, a factory worker named William Armstrong, abandoned the family soon after Louis' birth; his upbringing was done by his mother and maternal grandmother. He took an interest in music at an early age, and acquired a [[cornet]] by the time he reached the age of 11. He had also dropped out of school by then, and his dream of entering an informal jazz group was interupted by a trip to reform school after he had fired a gun during the New Year's celebration of 1912. But the school turned out to be a blessing in disguise; among the curriculum he was able to study music, play both the cornet and the bugle, and become leader of the school's marching band.
He began playing in the bands on [[Mississippi River|Mississippi]] riverboats, but migrating to [[Chicago]] to join “King” Oliver’s Jazz Band was the turning point in his career that soon found him moving to [[New York]] to play with the Fletcher enderson orchestra, the top [[African American]] band of that era.
==Later Careercareer==
Recording with [[Bing Crosby]], [[Duke Ellington]] and [[Ella Fitzgerald]], his many hits included “Stardust”, “What a Wonderful World”, “When The Saints Go Marching In”, “Dream a Little Dream of Me”, “Ain’t Misbehavin’”, “Blue Berry Hill,” “Mack the Knife,” and his most famous song, “Hello Dolly” that knocked the [[Beatles]] from the top of the Hit Parade in 1964. At 63 years of age he became the oldest person ever to have a chart topping single.
*[http://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/ Louis Armstrong House Museum]
*[http://hitparadehalloffame.org/xhtml_heads/Candidates/louis_armstong.html Hit Parade Hall of Fame]
*[http://www.time.com/time/time100/artists/profile/armstrong.html Louis Armstrong] The Time 100.
*[http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9355820 Louis Armstrong] Encyclopædia Britannica.
[[Category:Musicians]]
[[Category:Pages vandalized by Willy on Wheels]]