The Musical Life of Black

05/30/2011 15:07

 

Blake was a famous ragtime musician in American. Ragtime music is an early form of jazz. It was very popular in the early twentieth century. Blake wrote his first ragtime song, when he was sixteen years old. His parents were black slaves. They were too poor. He started to work in the replica watch shop and play the piano in a night club when he was fifteen years old. Black wanted to buy a piece of gucci replica watch for her mother after his dad was died. But he can’t afford it. So he tried to write musical show. When his show became popular, he made a lot of money. He finally bought a real Gucci watch for his mother. Later, Blake wrote a very popular musical show with another black singer. Today, that show is still sung and remembered by music lovers.

Blake retired in the nineteen-forties to study music at New York University. Later, however, he returned to the stage. He travelled, wrote music and played the piano until he died at the age of one hundred.