WYNTON MARSALIS WAS BORN OCTOBER 18, 1961 IN NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA

Wynton Marsalis' family includes Bradford Marsalis (brother), Ellis Marsalis JR (father), Delfeayo Marsalis (brother), Jason Morsalis (brother), Ellis Louis Morsalis SR (grandfather), Jasper Armstrong (brother), Dolores Morsalis (mother) and some more.

Raised in a musical family that included his father, a musician and teacher, and his older brother Branford, also a jazz musician, Wynton was just 6 years old when he started playing the trumpet. Just two years later, he was a mainstay in his church band and, by age 14, began playing with the New Orleans Philharmonic. Music continued to play a crucial role in Marsalis' life throughout high school, and at the age of 17 he became the youngest musician ever accepted into Tanglewood's Berkshire Music Center in Lenox, Massachusetts.

Wynton has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music.

WYNTON HAD A PROBLEM WITH HIS LIP

FAMOUS SONGS

• Big 12
• Free To Be
• The Tree of Freedom
• The Magic Hour

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