Louis Armstrong’s daughter reclaims her heritage

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Everyone in Sharon Preston-Folta’s family, elders to grandkids, knew that her father was Louis Armstrong, the legendary jazz musician affectionately known as Satchmo. But it stayed a secret for decades, because Armstrong was a married man, and the woman he was married to wasn’t Sharon’s mother, vaudeville dancer Lucille “Sweets” Preston. Sharon clung to every scrap of memory the man known to…

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