Jerry Lee Lewis Biography

Jerry Lee Lewis Profile Biography – Biographyzone.com. Jerry Lee Lewis, born September 29, 1935 in Ferriday (Louisiana, USA) is an American singer-pianist of rock and country music. Rock’n'roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis – nicknamed “The Killer” (the killer) – requires a fast and energetic style, both in piano and singing, delivering electric stage performances, not hesitating to strike the keyboard with his fists or his heels, or even to play standing.

Jerry Lee Lewis Career History

Jerry Lee Lewis Biography

Also known as	The Killer
Born	September 29, 1935 (1935-09-29) (age 75)
Origin	Ferriday, Louisiana, U.S.
Genres	Rock and roll, country, rockabilly
Occupations	Singer, songwriter, pianist
Instruments	Vocals, piano, guitar
Years active	1954–present
Labels	Sun, Mercury, Sire/Warner Bros, MCA
Website	www.jerryleelewis.com

Jerry Lee Lewis Information

Deliberately provocative and outrageous, he even set fire to his piano at the end of a concert, which forged its reputation for “bad-boy” (bad boy) rock’n'roll. Several of his titles have become classic, Great Balls of Fire, Whole Lotta Shakin ‘Goin’ On, High School Confidential, Breathless, It’ll Be Me, or his version of What I’d Say.

His life of excesses of all kinds (of his consumption of alcohol and drugs to his marriage with his cousin of 13 years) and his career decisive in the history of rock have been a film with Dennis Quaid in Great Balls of Fire!.Jerry Lee Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since its inception in 1986 and awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005 for lifetime achievement. He continues to tour worldwide.

Major figure in rock history, Bruce Springsteen said about him in 1995 in Cleveland: This Man Does not Play Rock’n'Roll. He Is Rock’n'Roll! (This man does not play rock’n'roll! Is rock’n'roll!)

Born September 29, 1935 at Ferriday Louisiana in a poor family, Jerry Lee Lewis developed his own approach, fierce, piano from the age of 10 years, synthesizing the sounds of Boogie Woogie he listens to the radio with the Rhythm ‘n’Blue South emanating from Haney’s Big House, a “Juke Joint” (nightclub which plays the Delta Blues in the Mississippi Delta) owned by his uncle.

Jerry Lee was later recorded by his mother at Southwestern Bible College in Waxahachie, Texas but did not stay very long. The siren call of music led him on a path that will change the world of music. By bringing together elements of rhythm n’blues, boogie woogie, gospel andcountry music into a sound that n’appartenient to him, Jerry Lee Lewis became a full member of the rock and roll scene that is emerging supplanting the major orchestras of popular music. 

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After leaving school, he does odd jobs and married twice. In 1956 he began recording for Sun in Memphis. There he met artists like Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash or Elvis Presley.

It amazes by its musical culture, and energy. He dances up in front and on his piano. With the release of Whole Lotta Shakin ‘Goin’ On and Great Balls of Fire in 1957, the flamboyant young rocker called for in the “charts” pop, rhythm and n’blues country and landed on the screens for roles in performance High School Confidential movies and Jamboree. When Elvis Presley Jerry Lee Lewis has been playing, he said that if he could play piano like that, he would stop singing. His meteoric career was stopped in the middle path by his third marriage in 1958.

He married Myra Gale Brown, who not only is the daughter of his cousin, but is older than 13 years. Incidentally, the “Killer” has not paid his previous divorces. He continued for many years by this marriage. His fees are collapsing, its discs are prohibited. The public comes to his shows for the booing. He is married 13 years Myra. They have two children together is Steve Allen Lewis (1959-1962) and Phoebe Allen Lewis (1963).

On 13 September 1969, he made a remarkable performance during a concert at the Rock’n'Roll Revival Festival in Toronto alongside Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, John Lennon and Yoko Ono. He returned around through the 1970s and recorded throughout his career a significant amount of discs.

Personality flayed, drinker, drug user, marked by numerous family tragedies and brushes with the law, Jerry Lee Lewis cultivates a taste for provocation and paradox. It states, inter alia, that the Rock and Roll has been for him a means to earn a record discs of country, his true passion.

From the beginning, even arrogant confidence irrepressible and insatiable energy of Jerry Lee Lewis has earned him countless fans, but also enemies. His career was studded with achievements and scandals: It was the first “Bad Boy”, one of the legends of Rock n ‘Roll and has prepared the ground for all the following.

For over 75 years and with over 25 million records sold to date, Jerry Lee Lewis, the “Bad Boy of Rock’n'Roll” (bad boy of rock ‘n’ roll), still has the same ability to attract and unleash the crowds.

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