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Louis Prima was an Italian American composer, singer, trumpet player, and bandleader from New Orleans. Throughout the course of his fifty-year career, Prima played styles that included traditional New Orleans jazz, big-band swing, and in the 1960s, pop and rock. He composed the swing standards “Sing, Sing, Sing” and “Jump, Jive an’ Wail.” In the fifties, he and his wife, Keely Smith, led a popular Las Vegas lounge act, a showcase for comic banter, zany antics, and his best-known, often humorous, swing and jump-blues songs. Prima is as famous for his trumpet style and the signature shuffle beat he called “Gleeby Rhythm” as he is for his outsized, comedic stage personality and distinctive, raspy singing voice.

Early years

Louis Prima was born to Sicilian immigrants in New Orleans on December 7, 1910, and grew up on St. Peter Street, in the Tremé neighborhood. He attended both Jesuit and Warren Easton high schools. Prima first listened to New Orleans jazz in the many integrated Italian and African-American nightclubs that stood in the section of Tremé and the French Quarter

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