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From the cotton fields to the floor of Madison Square garden, Black music has been around for as long as the race. It has been a part of many African American Lives and is only now being recognized. “NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2002 as Black Music Month.” The transformation from African folk Chants to songs on the top 10 took may have taken many long years which was full of failure and poverty, but in the end it was a revolution of music. Black Success in Music Entertainment can be seen through the First musicians who pioneered it. Louis Daniel Armstrong, popularly known later as "Satchmo" and "Pops" was a pioneer in the search for Black success in Music Entertainment. Armstrong was best known for his virtuosity with the cornet and trumpet. He was accepted as a great musician everywhere but was treated badly at first in the United States. Eventually he became an Uncle Tom, which is a derogatory term for a black person who cooperates with white people or protests injustice mildly instead of violently, or who is otherwise perceived to act in a servile and insincere