Louis Prima

Louis Prima was born on Dec 07, 1910 in USA. Louis Prima's big-screen debut came with The Champ's a Chump directed by Sam White in 1936, strarring Band Leader Louis. Louis Prima is known for The Jungle Book directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, Phil Harris stars as Baloo the Bear and Sebastian Cabot as Bagheera the Panther. The most recent award Louis Prima achieved is Walk of Fame. The upcoming new movie Louis Prima plays is The Jungle Book which will be released on Oct 18, 1967.

Born in New Orleans' French Quarter, Louis Prima longed to play jazz. When he was a child, he studied the violin. His older brother Leon took up trumpet while Louis was still quite young, and he soon followed in his brother's footsteps. He played in clubs like "The Famous Door" in the 1930s, and by the time the 1940s rolled around, Prima and his band were becoming well known. Like many other big bands, Prima always had a woman singer, his most famous being Keely Smith, with whom he recorded the classic "That Old Black Magic". She began with him when she was 16 years old, and he eventually married her. They were divorced in 1962, and he married 20-year-old Gia Maione that same year. In 1967 Prima voiced King Louie of the apes in the animated Disney feature Le Livre de la jungle (1967). Prima died in 1978, but his music continues as some of the best jazz and swing music ever recorded.