Jerry Lee was born on September 29th, 1935 at Turtle Lake on The Calhoun Plantation. He grew up on his parent's farm in the small town Ferriday, Louisiana. Jerry Lee is

the second son to Elmo and Mary Ethel (Mamie) Lewis. His older brother, Elmo Jr., died when Jerry Lee was four years old. He has two sisters, Linda Gail and Frankie Jean, who also are musically talented.

Jerry Lee´s parents were both people of strong religion and musical backgrounds. Jerry´s father actually signed with Sun Records in the fifties, although that was said to probably be Sam Phillips` last desperate attempt to keep Jerry Lee with his record company. His Mother Mamie was later a backup singer for a gospel song he performed known as “In Loving Memories”.

Both of Jerry Lee`s sisters have recorded in the Sun Studios. Linda still has an ongoing career in the music industry. Frankie Jean runs the Ferriday family museum, and is also a competent singer. Elmo was a farmer, but a wild ma

He started frequenting Haney´s Big House with his cousin Jimmy Lee Swaggart. Haney´s was a meeting place for blacks. They gathered there for parties. Jerry Lee´s uncle, Lee Calhoun, owned the place so Jerry Lee and his cousin would hide behind the bar and watch the plantation workers dancing around to the blues. Haney’s was the place that made Jerry Lee an outstanding performer of voice and on the keys.

"I'll tell ya, I started playing piano--I learned to play in two weeks."

By this point in his life, Jerry Lee had proved his skills to play rock and roll. So with his cousin J.W. Brown on bass, Jimmy Van Eaton on drums, and Roland James on guitar, he cut a rock version of a song called “Whole Lotta Shakin´ Goin´ On”. On a single take they recorded one of the most legendary rock and roll songs ever! Jerry Lee claims that they didn´t even know the tape machine was running. A month later he appeared on the "Steve Allen Show". Allen’s show had never achieved that level of success again. By autumn of that year, one million copies of the “Whole Lotta Shakin” singles had been sold.

Jerry Lee is most famous for his early rock and roll hits like “Great Balls Of Fire”, “Whole Lotta Shak

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