By Duane Shinn
 One of the most influential players of jazz that the world has known, Oscar Emmanuel Peterson was born on the 15th of August, 1925 in Little Burgundy, Montreal. His living environment was one imbibed with jazz music since lived in a locality where most of the people were African Americans. When just five years old, he was taught the piano and the trumpet. After being affected with tuberculosis a couple of years later, he dropped the trumpet and turned all his efforts towards the piano.
His main teacher these years, was his self taught father who was a porter working with Canadian Pacific Railways. He taught Oscar and his four brothers all that he garnered while playing the piano when he was in the merchant marine. His sister brought to his attention and taught him classical music.
Since starting to play the piano, Oscar made sure he got his basics right he would faithfully practice his scales and classical etudes daily - a habit which gave him a good grounding in the basics which in his later years contributed to a |
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By AnneDoe
 Elvis, le "Roi" Presley est mort le 16 Aot 1977, et on ne l'a pas oubli dans les {plus de} 29 annes passes. chaque anne et, partout, aux tats-Unis, il y a beaucoup de comptitions qui concernent les gens qui veulent se ressembler Elvis et paratre comme lui, mais aucun d'eux n'est grand et impressionnant comme l'un qui est enterr Las-Vegas.
Moi, j'tais le juge dans de nombreuses diffrentes comptitions des imitateurs d'Elvis, et tout le temps, s'approchent de moi des gens qui sont intresss d'entrer fortement {de s'enfoncer} la brillante vie de l'imitateur d'Elvis. La seule question qu'ils posent est: "que dois-je faire pour me prparer la comptition des Imitateurs d'Elvis". Alors, j'ai dcid crire, ici, des 5 importants conseils pour se prparer la comptition d'imitateur d'Elvis:
1) Paratre comme Elvis:
La premire chose qui est la plus importante est que tu aies quelque chose qui ressemble Elvis: Tu peux paratre comme un maigre jeune Elvis ou un vieux gros Elvis, mais c'est obligatoire que tu aies quelque chose qui lui ressemble. Si tu n'as |
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