Lil Hardin Armstrong, was a unique woman who has gone through many obstacles in his career as a female jazz musicians. He was talented, intelligent and has great endurance and strength in all areas of their lives. She was a singer, composer, bandleader and pianist.
It was February 3, 1898 in Memphis, Tennessee born. Your birth name was Beatrice Lillian Hardin. His parents divorced when she was very young, so she was raised mostly by his mother, Dempsey Hardin, who worked as a cookfor a local white family. He was raised as an only child, because her only brother died as a child.
Mrs. Armstrong grew up in a boarding house in Memphis and got to tune their Baptist church. He learned to play the organ at the tender age of six years. He began to attend music school at the age of sixteen, he won a competition, have pointed in the direction of his musical career. His mother tried to keep them away from the noisy life of local music to keep away, a ChristianCollege.
Lil was very good for educated black woman of her time. He attended Fisk University College in Chicago and New York College of Music. Although she and her mother were poor, Dempsey put all their money on education of his daughter.
Despite the efforts of his mother, Lil was pulled back into the jazz scene. They landed in Memphis blues, a style of music that the mother called "devil's music". He also worked in a record store, where they met RagtimePianist Jelly Roll Morton, who reports that the inventor of jazz. Finally, the mother accepted her daughter's musical career, deciding it was better than living as a cook.
Mrs. Armstrong was originally married to another musician named Jimmy Johnson. The marriage did not last long, and eventually met Louis Armstrong, who was beside her husband. Louis fell in love with "Hot Miss Lil" at first sight. It was not so sure about him at first, but the two developed a deep bond that has become as much a businessPartnership, as it was a marriage. And 'in recognition of talents Louis' and catapulted him to stardom, is credited with its sophistication and entrepreneurial experts.
Their marriage lasted 14 years, but disbanded after his repeated infidelity is too much to bear for them. In the early years after her divorce, has written songs for him. Finally, however, lost in despair after the breakup of his relationship with interest Lil 'in their music for a while'. He worked asThe fashion designer, a soul food restaurant owner, and as a piano and a French teacher.
Lil Hardin Armstrong was a strong woman and strong and a talented musician. When he died August 27, 1971, had left their mark on American music and women's rights left.
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