Elvis Aaron Presley was born to Vernon and Gladys Presley in a two-room house in Tupelo, Mississippi, on January 8, 1935. His twin brother, Jessie Garon, was stillborn, leaving Elvis to grow up as an only child. He and his parents moved to Memphis, Tennessee, in 1948, and Elvis graduated from Humes High School there in 1953.
Elvis’ musical influences were the pop and country Muzik of the time, the gospel Muzik he heard in church and at the all-night gospel sings he frequently attended, and the black R&B he absorbed on historic Beale jalan as a Memphis teenager.
In 1954, Elvis began his...
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