Louis Prima

Known for ActingBorn 1910-12-07Died 1978-08-24New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Louis Leo Prima was an American trumpeter, singer, entertainer, and bandleader. While rooted in New Orleans jazz, swing music, and jump blues, Prima touched on various genres throughout his career: he formed a seven-piece New Orleans–style jazz band in the late 1920s, fronted a swing combo in the 1930s and a big band group in the 1940s, helped to popularize jump blues in the late 1940s and early to mid 1950s, and performed frequently as a Vegas lounge act beginning in the 1950s. From the 1940s through the 1960s, his music further encompassed early R&B and rock 'n' roll, boogie-woogie, and Italian folk music, such as the tarantella. Prima made prominent use of Italian music and language in his songs, blending elements of his Italian and Sicilian identity with jazz and swing music. At a time when ethnic musicians were discouraged from openly stressing their ethnicity, Prima's conspicuous embrace of his Sicilian ethnicity opened the doors for other Italian-American and ethnic American musicians to display their ethnic roots. Prima is also known for providing the voice for the orangutan King Louie in the 1967 Disney film The Jungle Book. Description above from the Wikipedia article Louis Prima, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Hey Boy! Hey Girl!

Senior Prom

Jazz Ball

The Jungle Book

The Colgate Comedy Hour

The Champ's a Chump

The Ed Sullivan Show

Start Cheering

Rose of Washington Square

Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins

Swing Cat's Jamboree

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

You Can't Have Everything

Manhattan Merry-Go-Round

Louis Prima: The Wildest!

The Mike Douglas Show

The Continental Twist

Legends

Rhythm on the Range

The Star Reporter in Hollywood

Swing It

Playgirls International

Louis Prima: In Person!

DTV: Golden Oldies

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