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Louis Daniel Armstrong was born
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His father abandoned him and his family
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He dropped out of school and earned money singing on the streets with a quartet
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Musician named Joe "King" Oliver taught Louis to play the cornet
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He played in a brass band on the riverboats and steamboats of New Orleans
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Louis married Daisy Parker and adopted a 3-year-old mentally disabled boy named Clarence
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By this time he learned how to read music
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Became the first black to host a sponsored, national radio broadcast
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He speaks out against discrimination and violence
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Recorded his last song "What a wonderful world"
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He won a Grammy in vocal performance