Luana Cimino, nº20 - Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley

Biography

                                                                           

Elvis Aron Presley was born on January 8, 1935 in East Tupelo, Mississippi.He had a twin brother that was stillborn.On Sseptember 1948,when Elvis was 13,he and his parents moved to Memphis,Tennessee,where he attended Humes Highschool.After graduating from Humes Hig School in Memphis,Elvis took odd jobs working as a movie theater usher and a truck drive for Crown Electric Company.He began singing locally as "The Hillbilly Cat", then signed with a local recording company, then in 1955 with RCA.He did much to establish early rock and roll music, bringing black blues singing into the white, teenage mainstream.At the time of his death.he had