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Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) Louis Armstrong was born in one of the poorest neighborhoods in New Orleans, Louisiana, on August 4, 1901. Marc Miller, who is a Historian, says that Louis Armstrong was “a hard-working kid who helped support his mother and sister by working every type of job there was, including going out on the street corners at night to sing for coins.” By the time he was the age of seven, he was able to buy his first horn, which was a cornet. At just the tender young age of eleven, the juvenile court sent him away to a home for shooting a pistol. At the home (Jones Home for Colored Waifs) is where he began his first mu