Elvis presley history and biography

For the Record …. Admired as one of the most successful recording artists of all time, American singer and guitarist Elvis Presley exploded onto the music scene in the mids. The boy spent his earliest years in his hometown of Tupelo, where he and his family shared a two-room house, and as a teen he lived in Memphis , Tennessee , where his family relocated when he was in the eighth grade.

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Shortly after finishing high school in , the unknown artist began driving a delivery truck for the Crown Electric Company. He fooled around with the guitar in his free time. The year he graduated, however, the young hopeful also made an amateur recording at the Memphis Recording Studio. He followed it with a second in and captured the attention of Sam Phillips at Sun Records.

As a result, Presley created the now-legendary Sun recordings, hailed by many as among his finest.

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With a musical career in the offing, the future star quit his truck-driving job in and began performing professionally, mostly in rural areas where he was billed as The Hillbilly Cat. Worked as an usher in a movie theater while in high school; employed by the Precision Tool Plant, Memphis, for three months following graduation from high school; worked for Crown Electric Company, Memphis, in the stockroom and as a delivery truck driver, Recording artist and musical performer, Army, ; became sergeant; continued recording and film careers during s with some personal and benefit appearances, but no road tours; limited road touring during s, concentrated on Las Vegas and nightclubs.

He was also a remarkable showman. Advised by Colonel Tom Parker, whom he signed as his manager early in , Presley began making films, appearing on television, and otherwise keeping himself in the public eye. Though reportedly shy and disinclined to be interviewed, the upstart musician gave performances that drove audiences mad. Presley was already a legend by the time he was drafted into the U.