Louis Prima

Louis Prima was an ItalianAmerican singer, actor, songwriter, and trumpeter. Prima rode the musical trends of his time, starting with his sevenpiece New Orleans style jazz band in the late 1920s, then leading a swing combo in the 1930s, a big band in the 1940s, a Vegas lounge act in the 1950s, and a poprock band in the 1960s.

Prima was from a musical family in New Orleans. His father, Anthony Prima, was the son of Leonardo Di Prima, a Sicilian immigrant from Salaparuta, while his mother, Angelina Caravella, had immigrated from Ustica as a baby. Prima was the second child of four his older brother, Leon, was born in 1907, while his sisters Elizabeth and Marguerite were younger. Marguerite died when she was three years old. Leon, Louis, and Elizabeth were all baptized at St. Anns Parish. They lived in a house at 1812 St. Peter Street in New Orleans, in a neighborhood mostly populated by Italians, Arabs, Jews and African Americans.

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