Louis Armstrong - National Harbor, MD
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The Snowdog
N 38° 47.046 W 077° 00.898
18S E 324983 N 4294746
This life-sized bronze statue of jazz and blues legend Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong is on a broad street lined with statues in National Harbor, Maryland.
Waymark Code: WM13K5K
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 12/29/2020
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Louis Armstrong was an American trumpeter, composer, vocalist, and actor who was among the most influential figures in jazz and blues. His career spanned five decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s. Armstrong's recordings of
St. Louis Blues and
West End Blues are in the
Grammy Hall of Fame. In 2017, he was posthumously inducted into the Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame.
Many of the statues here are by sculptor Ivan Schwartz. You can read more about the artwork in National Harbor at
this link.
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