Biography
Louis Daniel Armstrong, nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American jazz and blues trumpeter and vocalist. Among the most influential figures in jazz, his career spanned five decades and several eras in the history of the genre. Armstrong received numerous accolades, including the Grammy Award for Best Male Vocal Performance for "Hello, Dolly!" in 1965, as well as a posthumous win for the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1972. His influence crossed musical genres, with inductions into the DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame, among others.
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Awards & recognition
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame · 1990
- Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award · 1972
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame · 1960
Filmography29 titles
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet
Good Evening Ev'rybody: In Celebration of Louis Armstrong
The Mentalist
Jazz Ball
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Bert Stern - Original Madman
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Jazz
Jazz on a Summer's Day
The Sound of 007
Pennies from Heaven
That's Entertainment, Part II
Hello, Dolly!
The Glenn Miller Story
What's My Line?
The Five Pennies
The Colgate Comedy Hour
The Dick Cavett Show
High Society
The Ed Sullivan Show
New Orleans
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Paris Blues
Cabin in the Sky
A Song Is Born
Here Comes the Groom
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