Charles ‘Buddy’ Bolden was born on September 6, 1877. There has been much controversy concerning Buddy’s birth date. In his early years, Buddy would have probably become close with his father, riding along on the wagon acquainting himself with the neighborhood and people who would later influence his life. He probably got his first glimpses of the New Orleans music scene with his father watching parades and attending concerts where brass bands played. Some of the early leaders of the brass bands at this time would have been Thomas S. Kelly, Charlie Jaeger, Frank Dodson, Louis Martin and Sylvester Decker.
Berry’s friend Ira Harris taught him new guitar techniques that became the basis for the Chuck Berry sound. On a trip to Chicago, he hooked up with his idol Muddy Waters who sent him over to Chess Records to make a record. Berry had no recordings of his own and had to return to St. Louis to put some music together on tape. One of those songs was “Maybelline” which would become his first big hit. The
When Selena was born her parents didn’t have a name for a girl so they began telling people it was a boy then some one told them the name Selena and the parents liked it so that’s what they named her. Selena began singing since the age of three, when she was nine her father founded there singing group. There family soon went bankrupt and go evicted from there home. They took all of there band equipment and left to Corpus Christi, Texas in an old bus, they preformed everywhere they could streets, weddings, and any other place. All of the time and effort eventually paid off when Selena turned fourteen and recorded her first album for a record company.
Vicente grew up in poverty, and when his dad lost the ranch he moved to Tijuana where he worked as a janitor, dishwasher and a waiter. He later on moved to Mexico City, where he found a job singing at a restaurant called, El Amanacer Tapatio and began performing in the streets for tips. When he wasn’t working he was auditioning for recording companies
By 1920, Armstrong had left New Orleans. He first played professionally in St. Louis, and then joined his idol’s (Joe Oliver) Jazz Band in Chicago. He became very popular amongst the jazz musicians due to his different style: it was very improvisational (Rarely the same thing over and over again). As the music styles began to change away from jazz, Armstrong mixed bebop, jazz, etc. together.
His life as a child was difficult because he received only minimal schooling. He had to quit school to help his sharecropping family around the house. Broonzy worked as a field hand, and it was behind the mule that he first developed his unmistakable, hollering voice, with its remarkable range and flexibility. Influenced by musicians such as Jimmie Rodgers, Blind Blake, Son House, and Blind Lemon Jefferson, Broonzy developed an amalgamated form of the blues. He began playing music at an early age and at the age of ten he made himself a fiddle from a cigar box and learned how to play spiritual and folk songs from his uncle, Jerry Belcher.
This was a latter copy of the Meyers Grosses Konversations-Lexikon encyclopaedia which contained how to create the sonata form first movement of quartets. His family had to get the book through their instalment plan. His father passed away due to pneumonia when he was sixteen so he got a job as a bank clerk to support his family's financial situation. He did this for five years and also met Alexander Von Zemlinsky (1871-1942) who was the a rising composer himself and was a conductor of the polyhymnia amateur orchestra where Schoenberg also played the cello. He quit his job and became a conductor for the Mödling Choral Society and also became a “chorusmaster of the Stockerau Metalworkers' Singers' Union” Zimlinsky later became Schoenberg's brother in law after he married Mathilde Von Zimlinsky.
By the age of 12 Liszt traveled to Paris where he learned advanced composition by Ferdinando Paer. By this time Liszt was touring widely as a well-regarded concert pianist. Liszt father, who had first been the one to teach him how to play the piano, took Liszt to Vienna; he was trained in composition free of charge. In 1826 his father had passed away. This made Frantz Liszt exhausted and traumatized at the young age of 15.
In 1943, because of World War II the family had to leave their city of Modena. The following year after they rented a single room in a neighboring countryside from a farmer. It was here where Pavarottie developed an interest in farming. Pavarotti's earliest musical influences were his father's recordings with the popular tenors of their time. His father, Fernando Pavarotti, was also a gifted tenor himself, who fueled a love for music and singing in Luciano.
True Meaning of Freedom I never knew the true meaning of the word "freedom" until about six years ago, even though I grew up and lived in our great USA " Land of the free, home of the brave" my whole life. I was born in a small, sleepy town on the outskirts of Northern NJ. When I was six years old my family moved to North East Pennsylvania because my Dad and Grandfather wanted to start a veal business. My Dad was a hard worker all his life, taking odd jobs wherever he could find work. I remember my Mom telling me he once had a job picking large rocks out of the road before the big machines came to have it paved.