Who was Louis Armstrong’s first wife?

Daisy Parker

Louis Armstrong
Spouses	Daisy Parker ​ ​ ( m. 1919; div. 1923)​ Lil Hardin Armstrong ​ ​ ( m. 1924; div. 1938)​ Alpha Smith ​ ​ ( m. 1938; div. 1942)​ Lucille Wilson ​ ( m. 1942)​
Children	1
Musical career
Genres	Dixieland jazz swing traditional pop

Who inherited Louis Armstrong’s money?

When Louis died in 1971, he bequeathed $5,000 each to his sister and to his cousin and left everything else to his widow, Lucille. Lucille died in 1983.
 

What was Louis Armstrong’s famous quote?

Quotes by Louis Armstrong



“If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it.”

Why did Neil Armstrong’s wife leave him?

They split in 1994.



After almost forty years of marriage, Janet and Neil divorced in 1994. According to Neil’s official biography, the two grew apart because Neil was emotionally unavailable while Janet carried the burden of caring for the family.
 

Did Louis Armstrong marry and have children?

Louis Armstrong loved children, but despite four marriages and many affairs, he did not father any of his own.
 

Does Lance Armstrong have two wives?

Lance Armstrong and his longtime partner, Anna Hansen, are now husband and wife. Armstrong, 50, and Hansen got married at the Château La Coste in France in front of their friends and family, including their kids Max, 13, and Olivia, 11.
 

Who was Louis Armstrong’s 4th wife?

Lucille Wilson

Homestead-born Darlene Hope plays fourth wife Lucille Wilson, a Cotton Club singer whose marriage to Armstrong was the musician’s longest, lasting from 1942 until his death in 1971. The home she shared with him in Queens is now the Louis Armstrong House Museum.

Did Lil Hardin Armstrong have kids?

Lil Armstrong was born Lillian Beatrice Hardin on February 3, 1898. Her grandmother, Priscilla Thompson, was born into slavery in 1850 in Lafayette County near Oxford, Mississippi. Thompson married Taylor Martin in 1870 and the couple had 13 children together, seven of whom had died by 1900.
 

How did Louis Armstrong meet Lil Hardin?

Lil and Louis met in Chicago in 1923. Photo courtesy of the Frank Driggs Collection. Lil and Louis were band mates in King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band when they married in 1924. Louis was the new kid in town and Lil the established player on the Chicago jazz scene.