When Elvis Presley Was Born?

The American rock and roll singer and actor was born into a modest family on January 8, 1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi. At the age of eleven, and at his insistence, his parents gave him his first guitar.

In 1948, his family moved to Memphis, one of the centers of musical activity in the country. When Elvis was just 19 years old, producer Sam Phillips, owner of Sun Records, decided to release a single for him containing the songs That's all right and Blue Moon of Kentucky. This first attempt opened the doors for him to a country music radio show, Louisiana Hayride, with a range of broadcasts that included 13 states.

In 1955, with his popularity on the rise, Elvis Presley signed with RCA Records. 1956 was a key year for Elvis's career, thanks to the Heartbreak Hotel theme, which sold three hundred thousand copies in three weeks and ended up being the first of his gold records. He also released his first LP, entitled Elvis Presley, which reached a million copies sold and made a seven-year commitment to Paramount film studios, eager to hire an emerging youth idol who was already causing hysterics among attendees back then to their concerts.

His television appearances began to be common, and the amounts received by them reached record figures in the history of the medium. Parallel to his unstoppable rise to world fame, some conservative sectors of American society vigorously opposed both the character and his music, which they called perverted and immoral, in particular as a result of his famous hip movement, whose impact was so immediate that the singer received the nickname Elvis Pelvis.

As the culmination of the meteoric year of 1956, Love Me Tender, the first film starring Elvis Presley, premiered in New York on November 16 to great acclaim, and the Wall Street Journal dedicated an article to it highlighting the $22 million that the merchandising associated with his image had collected until that moment.