{"id":9744,"date":"2023-11-22T19:20:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T19:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/?p=9744"},"modified":"2023-11-28T17:09:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T17:09:56","slug":"elvis-presley-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/2023\/11\/22\/elvis-presley-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Elvis Presley Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"

The King is Dead\u00a0 –\u00a0 Long Live the King<\/strong><\/h1>\n

I have had requests to write about this guy, including a long-time friend\u00a0John Walsh<\/strong>, who rang me this week, in fact, he sang into the phone.<\/p>\n

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He was born in Mississippi and was one of the originators of rockabilly, an up-tempo, backbeat-driven mixture of Country and Rhythm & Blues.\u00a0 His genres in music consisted of Rock and roll, pop, rockabilly, country, blues, gospel and R&B.\u00a0 His career started in 1954, and was associated with The Blue Moon Boys, The Jordanaires and The Imperials.\u00a0 He was a singer, musician and actor, was known the world over by his first name and is simply known as The King.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019m talking, of course, about Elvis.<\/p>\n

Elvis was born Elvis Aron Presley on 8th<\/sup>\u00a0January 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi to 18 year old Vernon and 22 year old Gladys Presley (who was of Irish descent).\u00a0 He later changed the spelling of his middle name to the biblical form of Aaron.\u00a0 He was born a twin and his older brother, Jesse, died at birth.\u00a0 His parents were working class and didn\u2019t have a lot of money.\u00a0 They moved a lot and when Elvis was 13 they moved to Memphis, Tennessee.<\/p>\n

When Elvis was 10, he got his first guitar (because his parents couldn\u2019t afford the bicycle he wanted). He was given lessons by two of his uncles and came in fifth at a talent show at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show, held in Tupelo singing \u2018Old Shep\u2019.\u00a0 He won $5 in fair ride tickets.\u00a0 He also won a talent show at the Humes High School.\u00a0 At age 15, his music teacher told him he that he had no talent for singing. He was very shy and found it difficult to perform in public.\u00a0 This led to him being bullied in school.\u00a0 At 18, he graduated in 1953 and worked in a few jobs while following his musical vision.\u00a0 Throughout his mid teens, he would go to Beale Street, the heart of Memphis’s thriving blues scene, and gaze eagerly at the wild, flashy clothes in the windows of Lansky Brothers.\u00a0 When he was 18, he was wearing them.\u00a0 You have to dream.\u00a0 As Walt Disney said \u201cAll our\u00a0dreams<\/em>\u00a0can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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