Elvis
Presley

In September 1948, Presley's family was forced to move to Memphis (Tennessee pcs), which was more room for Presley's father to find work. It was in Memphis Elvis began more consciously to be interested in contemporary music on the radio, he listened to country, the traditional stage, as well as the transfer of black music (blues, boogie-woogie, rhythm-and-blues). He also frequently visited neighborhoods Biel Street in Memphis, where watched the game at first hand the black singers and wandered in the black shops, under the influence where Elvis developed his brightly emissive his fashion.

After graduating from school in summer 1953, 18-year-old Presley found a job as a truck driver. It was then that he decided to go to a sound recording studio that belonged to Sam Phillips, and for eight dollars to record a guitar a couple of songs. Printed in a single copy double-sided disc with songs «My Happiness» and «That's When My Heartache Begins» was formally belated gift to Presley's mother, although the true reason for this step, it was Presley's desire to hear his voice in the recording. By the time he had definitely wanted to become a musician, but he did not know what the genre - whether to perform gospel and church hymns or play country. He even managed, a few months earlier, to address the club and at several concerts. Studio Secretary Phillips recorded Presley, showed her ears (to the question, to which the artist most closely his singing, Elvis replied that «there is no such a»). Presley asked her to call him as soon as the firm Phillips (at that was a record label Sun Records, producing mostly black but the music) would need a singer. Since then he has stayed in the office of the studio, hoping to get a job (for himself Elvis recorded another record in early 1954).