Jazz
United States of America
Louis Prima
More albums from Louis Prima
![Listen to Hey Boy! Hey Girl! (Music from the Soundtrack) [Expanded Edition] by Louis Prima & Keely Smith](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music4/v4/24/d0/61/24d06187-3c5c-c0a2-41c7-f4c9da20929e/05099908442857.jpg/1380x1380bb.webp "Listen to Hey Boy! Hey Girl! (Music from the Soundtrack) [Expanded Edition] by Louis Prima & Keely Smith")
![Listen to The Wildest! (Expanded Edition) [2002 Remaster] by Louis Prima featuring Keely Smith with Sam Butera & The Witnesses](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music6/v4/38/ae/ef/38aeefd0-476e-ccdc-a5b8-441c54578d5e/00724353869656.jpg/1380x1380bb.webp "Listen to The Wildest! (Expanded Edition) [2002 Remaster] by Louis Prima featuring Keely Smith with Sam Butera & The Witnesses")
About Louis Prima
Hometown
New Orleans, United States of America
Born
1910
Genre
Jazz
Often called âThe King of Swing,â Louis Prima was a singer, songwriter, trumpeter, and one of the most successful performers of the big band jazz era.
â Born and raised in New Orleans, he played violin from a young age before finding inspiration in the Dixieland sound of such local jazz musicians as trumpeter Louis Armstrong.
â Prima wrote the 1936 song âSing, Sing, Singââa jazz standard and career-making hit for swing music legend Benny Goodman.
â Impressed by his performance in Washington, D.C., First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt personally invited Prima to play for President Franklin D. Rooseveltâs birthday in 1939.
â After achieving enormous success touring in the 1940s, he released his debut album, Louis Prima Plays For The People, in 1953.
â His Las Vegas residencyânicknamed âThe Wildest Show In Vegasââpioneered the cityâs nightclub scene and was famously captured on the 1956 album The Wildest!.
â At the first-ever Grammy Awards in 1958, Prima and wife Keely Smith won Best Performance By A Vocal Group for their hit collaboration âThat Old Black Magic.â
â He made his voice-acting debut in the 1967 animated film The Jungle Book, playing the orangutan King Louie and performing the song âI Wanâna Be Like You.â
â During the â90s swing revival, he gained new fans and inspired covers, such as The Brian Setzer Orchestraâs Grammy Award-winning version of âJump, Jive, Anâ Wail.â
â After being sampled on the 2018 single â4th Dimensionâ by KIDS SEE GHOSTS, he broke the record for longest gap between Billboard Hot 100 appearancesâ59 years.
Louis Prima has also released music as a member of Louis Prima & His New Orleans Gang, Louis Prima & Keely Smith and Louis Prima and His Orchestra.
Influenced by Louis PrimaLouis Prima has influenced the music of The Brian Setzer Orchestra, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Royal Crown Revue and more.
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