Amazon Quiz: This figure is a representation of which music legend?
Michael Jackson
Freddie Mercury
John Lennon
Elvis Presley
Answer: Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley was an American musician and actor who is regarded as one of the most influential cultural celebrities of the 20th century. During a time of profound change in racial relations, his sexually provocative performance style and energising song interpretations, along with a particularly potent confluence of influences from all backgrounds, brought him both immense popularity and initial controversy.
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When Presley was 13 years old, his family moved from Tupelo, Mississippi, to Memphis, Tennessee. Presley was born there. There, in 1954, he began his musical career by recording for Sun Records with the producer Sam Phillips, who aimed to popularise the sound of African-American music.
Rockabilly is a fast-paced, backbeat-driven mix of country music and rhythm and blues, and Presley was a pioneer of the genre while playing rhythm acoustic guitar with lead guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black.
Presley is acknowledged by Guinness World Recordings as the best-selling solo music artist of all time with over 500 million records sold globally. He enjoyed commercial success in a variety of genres, including gospel, pop, country, rhythm & blues, and adult contemporary. Presley was admitted into several music halls of fame, got the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at the age of 36, and won three Grammy Awards for his music.
