He had one real brother named Charles. When Eddie was a kid he admired Bill Cosby and especially Elvis Presley. At age 15 Ed was working a local ice cream plant named Brayer’s ice cream. He sang in a local R&B band and his band stole supermarket trolleys to transport equipment (Eddie Murphy IMDB). When Ed was in high school he carried a case full of jokes around and told them to his classmates.
Jim later dropped out of High School to work on celebrity impersonations. He later moved to Los Angeles to work as a celeb impersonator. In a place called The Comedy Store, were he first worked as an celeb impersonator, Jim had impressed a man named Rodney Dangerfield so much, that Dangerfield signed Jim up to do an opening act for and whole season for the veteran comic. While doing this, Jim met a women named Melissa Womer who he later married and they had a daughter named Jane Carrey. Later Jim and Melissa went through a dicvorce were after that, Jim met and married a women named Lauren
Alisha Paire Paire 1 Jazz Dance 9|28|12 Miss. Smart Alvin Ailey Alvin Ailey was born on January 5, 1931 in Roger, Texas. Ailey’s father abandoned the family when he was only a few months old. One of the things Alvin always did in his childhood was attending the True Vine Baptist Church. The church had a lasting affect on him later in life.
His parents had little money and moved from place to place often. He was devoted to his parents especially his mother (Gladys) and was raised to have strong faith in God. They attended the Assembly of God Church where gospel music was a very important influence for him. Elvis got his first guitar when he was ten, and not long after, won the talent show at Humes High School and that was his first taste of musical success. After he graduated in 1953, he worked several jobs while chasing his musical dream.
Robert Penn Warren was born in Guthrie, Todd County, Kentucky, on April 24, 1905. He was the oldest of three children; others being Mary, the middle child, and Thomas, the youngest. His parents were Robert Franklin Warren, a proprietor and banker, and Anna Ruth Penn Warren, a schoolteacher. In the fall of 1911 he entered the Guthrie School from which he graduated at age 15. He did not then enter college as his mother felt he was too young and went instead, in September, 1920, to Clarksville High School, Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee, graduating after the full school year.
Sy Oliver Sy Oliver,Melvin James Oliver, was born on December 17,1910 in Battle Creek Michigan. Sy’s mother taught piano and his father knew how to play every instrument and they taught a music class in Ohio. Sy’s father used to help the leading company of saxophones sell in the early 1900s in America. His father also was known locally for his choir, he would write their music and there Sy first saw that writing music was possible. Sy grew up all around music, he was only bound to be in the music industry.
As a young man, Berry found a love for chorus and drama and continued performing until he graduated from Greenville High School in 1960 (Few). He received a bachelor's degree at Delta State College, after he turned down medical school, he worked at General Motors for a year (“D.C.B. Biography”). Berry married and later than divorced Terri Stoutenborough (Jacobs). He later than remarried and divorced, a woman
After moving to San Diego in the summer of 1992, Mark Hoppus was reunited with his sister Anne, to whom he expressed his desire to be in a band. Anne attended Rancho Bernardo High School, where she became friends with new student Tom DeLonge who had been previously expelled from Poway High School for showing up drunk at a basketball game. DeLonge often expressed the desire to be in a band as well, so in August 1992 Anne introduced him to her brother Mark Hoppus. [1] The two played for hours in DeLonge's garage, showing each other songs they had previously written, and writing new songs together – one of which would become the track "Carousel". [1] To impress DeLonge, Hoppus climbed to the top of a streetlight outside of DeLonge's home – however, he cracked both heels on the landing, resulting in being in crutches for the next few weeks.
and he had two sisters, Sheila and Sharon. [1] He was a childhood neighbor and friend of Bill Clinton for the first eight years of his life, until Clinton moved away. As the future president later recalled, "I lived with my grandparents in a modest little house across from Vince Foster's nice, big, white brick house. "[4] Foster excelled as a student and an athlete. [4] He graduated from Hope High School in 1963[1] as president of his class.
The Life of Ruby Nell Bridges In Tylertown, Mississippi, Ruby Nell Bridges was born on September 8, 1954. Her parents and grandparents sharecropped in Mississippi. Her parents, Abon and Lucille Bridges, moved to New Orleans, when she was 4 years old. Her father got a job as a gas station attendant and her mother took night jobs to help support their growing family. When Ruby was in kindergarten, she was one of many African-American students in New Orleans who were chosen to take a test determining whether or not she could attend a white school.