Louis Prima

✶December 7, 1910

†August 24, 1978

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About their life

Louis Leo Prima was an American trumpeter, singer, entertainer, and bandleader. While rooted in New Orleans jazz, swing music, and jump blues, Prima touched on various genres throughout his career: he formed a seven-piece New Orleans–style jazz band in the late 1920s, fronted a swing combo in the 1930s and a big band group in the 1940s, helped to popularize jump blues in the late 1940s and early to mid 1950s, and performed frequently as a Vegas lounge act beginning in the 1950s.

American musician (1910–1978)

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Biography from the article Louis Prima on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.