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American rock and roll and country music singer, songwriter, and pianist Jerry Lee Lewis was born on September 29, 1935, in Ferriday, Louisiana, U.S. He was born to the poor family of Elmo and Mamie Lewis in Ferriday, Concordia Parish in eastern Louisiana, and began playing piano in his youth with his two cousins, Mickey Gilley and Jimmy Swaggart. His parents mortgaged their farm to buy him a piano. Influenced by a piano-playing older cousin Carl McVoy, the radio, and the sounds from the black juke joint across the tracks, Haney's Big House, Lewis developed his own style mixing rhythm and blues, boogie-woogie, gospel, and country music, as well as ideas from established "country boogie" pianists like recording artists Moon Mullican and Merrill Moore. Soon he was playing professionally. And now, you may download Jerry Lee Lewis' album, Hall of Fame Hits vol. 1, in mp3 from our site.
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