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As a youngster in the little orphanage home in New Orleans, I was the bugler of the institution. When I got to be around 13 or 14 years old, they took me off the bugle and put me in the little brass band.

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Louis Armstrong
Age: 69 †
Born: 1901
Born: August 4
Died: 1971
Died: July 6
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