Hank Williams Jr as we know him was born Hank Randall Williams, born in small town Shreveport, Louisiana, on May 26, 1949. Hank Jr was only three when his father Hank died, but that did not stop his music dream. At just the age of 8 Hank Jr began singing his dad songs on stage. “Williams made his stage debut at the age of 8 and his first appearance at Nashville's famed Grand Ole Opry at age 11. At age 15, Williams had his first Top 5 hit on the country charts. " (http://www.biography.com/) Even though his father was gone, Hank Jr helped carry on his legacy through music. His mother being his biggest supporter, helped him along the way. He although like many of us do he hit a low spot in his life, being on the road he picked up drinking …show more content…
Just shows after the 40 years he can still go strong being him, even if times got hard. Hank Williams Jr will always be remembered, He made a huge turning point in country music. He started young and seen his dreams and where he wanted to be, He didn't let anyone or anything stop him from getting there. Hank took his own spin on country music, and made it his own. Not following the “trend”, But doing what he wanted. Taking his dad with him , never forgetting that he's one of the reasons he's here. We all had our ups and down just like Hank did, that didn't stop him it made him work ten times harder. One thing you should have gotten from learning about hank is , he didn't care what everyone else was doing he just did him . He did what he needed to do to get him where he wanted to go. “"Remember this one: 'Dress Like an Icon,'" he teases. "That's all I'm gonna tell you!"” (http://www.rollingstone.com/) . Words from hank, cocky but motivational, explaining he was one of a kind and one never to be
Scott Joplin, commonly known as the "King of Ragtime" music, was born on November 24, 1868, in Bowie County, Texas near Linden. Joplin came from a large musical family. His father, Giles Joplin was a musician who had fiddled dance music while serving as a slave at his master's parties. His mother, Florence Givens Joplin, born free and out of slavery, sang and played the banjo, and four of his brothers and sisters either sang or played strings.
He also included in the song, the lyrics which have come to define his life more than any other:
When Henry turned 40 he was broke and washed up. Even after this he went in to the ALAM to get a licence to build his cars, he was shot down. He went on to try for more investors, he again was shot down. Now without investment and no licence he still went on to try and build his cars. This time he just did the necessity not the lucry. This worked! In the first month of his work he built and sold 1700 cars. This was a big thing back then! But he doesn't stop there he goes on to sell 300,000 cars yearly!! Thats half of today's sales!! Ford became one of the highest selling cars available. He came from the bottom to the top l...
"If you're out there, people never forget you. That is one of the things I believe in today, never being forgotten. I would like to be remembered as a person that loved people and wanted to be loved by them''. King has wrought a unique style of blues often imitated, but never duplicated.
struggled so valiantly for. As he is being “gutted” in the end, he takes the pain with grace,
He seems like he is holding up very well until the end of the movie. He is in tears at the kitchen table and claims that Beth does not love him like she used to. One can tell that he had been holding this emotion in for a long time. It seemed like a relief to get it all out. It is not healthy to bottle up emotions like that because they can come out in unhealthy ways. Two people have to be willing to be open with their emotions if they want to solve any type of
Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams in 1911. As a successful playwright, his career was greatly influenced by events in his life. He was noted for bringing the reader "a slice of his own life and the feel of southern culture", as his primary sources of inspiration were "the writers he grew up with, his family, and the South." The connection between his life and his work can be seen in several of his plays.
Hiram “Hank” Williams, third child of Lon and Lillie Williams, was born on September 17, 1923 in Mount Olive, Alabama near Georgiana. Hank was raised by his mother because his father was in a veteran’s hospital most of his childhood. Hank’s childhood was shaped by a spinal condition called spina bifida so he could not play sports or do regular activities with the other children. Perhaps his inability to do normal activities sparked his interest in music. Hank got his first guitar at eight years old (Harden).
"He was as good a man as he had to be in a life that was hard and
Like Abner, Henry Ford himself was not able to escape the unintended darkness he was creating. He was no longer the Henry Ford, who cared for the people, but a puppet of his money and power. Henry Ford drives by Tom and his wife are dragging themselves in the street and asks his chauffeur what is the matter prior to both men disregarding her as just “another drunk” before speeding away (Upton 212).
It all started out when Hank, Jacob, and Lou were in Jacob’s truck, driving to Lou’s house when all of a sudden a fox jumped out in front of Jacob and he swerved and hit a tree. Everyone got out of the truck and chased the fox into the woods. While going through the woods they stumble upon a crashed airplane. Hank decides to look inside the plane and he discovers a dead pilot and 4.4 million dollars. Hank wanted to turn in the money so he didn 't have to go through any trouble if someone was looking for it. Jacob and Lou persuaded Hank to let them keep the money, but Hank said that the money will be
lines show that he did manage to overcome it and he did end up being a
According to wikipedia Johnny Cash was born in kingsland arkansas, though he was never given a real name, he was called J.r while a child, then when he got older people called him Johnny.When he turned five Johnny helped out on his fathers farm with his mom, dad, and older brother.Johnny had a rough childhood, not only the untimely death of his brother, but his abusive father made things worse.Johnnyjoined the air force as a radio operator in Landsberg am Lech, Germany.where he joined a band called the Landsberg Barbarians.afterhis term he married Vivian Liberto and moved to Memphis where he was a radio salesman, and studied to be a radio announser. Cash where for a record deal at sun records, where he sung mostly gospil, and Sam Phillips the owner of sun records said " go home and sin, then come back with a song I can sell.", cash won over sun records and relese...
...f his problems with the Internal Revenue Service. However, he also has the drive of a superego. I believe had he not had the determination to succeed in his life, he would not be where he is today.
all of the adversity, he managed to keep his optimistic outlook and his diligent work