ELVIS PRESLEY

Born proletarian
●

Elvis Presley was born on January 8, 1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi, In the two-room shotgun house. he had an identical twin brother, stillborn. He was very close of his mother The family attended an Assembly of God church where he found his initial musical inspiration

Childhood
●

Presley entered first grade at East Tupelo Consolidated,Where he was encouraged to enter a singing contest after impressing his schoolteacher he same year two of his uncles gave him guitar lessons, and he said “I took the guitar, and I watched people, and I learned to play a little bit. But I would never sing in public. I was very shy about it”

●

Memphis,Tennessee
●

In 1950, he began practicing guitar regularly under the tutelage of Jesse Lee Denson, a neighbor, and two other schoolmates. his music teacher told him he had no aptitude for singing Presley began to stand out more among his classmates, largely because of his appearance: he grew out his sideburns and styled his hair with rose oil and Vaseline

●

●

beginning records
●

In August 1953, Presley walked into the offices of Sun Records. He aimed to pay for a few minutes of studio time to record a two-sided acetate disc, After he recorded, Sun boss Sam Phillips asked Keisker to note down the young man's name...

First album

●

1956, Presley made his first recordings eponymic for RCA in Nashville. His agent arranged him entrevues on CBS This album contain « blue suede shoes » and « hound dog », two of his most famous hits.

●

Problems
●

The New York Times wrote, "Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability. ... His phrasing, if it can be called that, consists of the stereotyped variations that go with a beginner's aria in a bathtub. ... His one specialty is an accented movement of the body ... After a show in Wisconsin, an urgent message of the local Catholic diocese's was sent to FBI director. It warned that "Presley is a definite danger to the