Elvis Aaron Presley - american singer and actor. Despite the three decades since his death, Elvis Presley remains the most successful performer, along with Michael Jackson, pop music of XX century, and it still belongs to the set-time records in the field of recording. His popularity is so broad that most people just called him by name - «Elvis». From Elvis Presley is also associated with sustained expression «The King of rock 'n' roll» (in America often «The King» - The King).
Elvis Presley was born Jan. 8, 1935 in Tyupelo, pc. Mississippi, in the family Vernon Presley and Gladys (twin of Elvis - Jess Garonna - died in childbirth). Presley's family was quite poor, the situation worsened when the future father of the singer is in jail on charges of forging checks in 1938 (he was released only after 2 years). Elvis grew up with a childhood surrounded by music and religion: it was a necessary visit to the church and participated in church choir. Presley's mother in particular followed the manners son, immunized for life to the utmost courtesy and respect for elders. At his 11th birthday Elvis received a guitar - instead of a bicycle, which the family could not afford. Perhaps at such a choice was influenced by the first musical success of Elvis - a few months before he received the prize at the fair for the performance of folk songs «Old Shep».