Elvis Aaron Presley was born in Vernon in a two room house in Mississippi, on January 8, 1935. His parents moved to Tennesse in 1948 and graduated from Humes High School there in 1953.
Elvis' Musical Influences wew the pop and country music of the time, the gospel music he heard in church and at the all-night gospel sings he frequently attended, and the black R&B he liked the Beale Street as a Memphis teenager.
Sun records picked up Elvis in 1954. In 1955 his record contract was sold to RCA Victor. By 1956, he was an international sensation. He combined different styles of music and created his own style of music.
He was in 33 successful movies and he made history with his appearence on television.
He dies on August 16th, 1997 in the bathroom at Graceland. Elvis was rushed to the hospital when he was said dead. The desth was as cardiac arrhythmia. Arrhythmia iswhen your heart was beating irregularly and finally stopped.. It was because of his perscription drug overdose. Elvis Presley was a l;egend in music history.
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