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Elvis Presley

American singer and actor known as the 'King of Rock and Roll'.

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Elvis Presley is best known for Pioneering rock and roll music and iconic performances that shaped 20th-century popular culture. On Dead or Alive, Elvis Presley is listed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame category, where you can test yourself on similar names. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Elvis Presley is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

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Known for: Pioneering rock and roll music and iconic performances that shaped 20th-century popular culture
Listed under: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

About Elvis Presley

Presley's energetic and sexually provocative performance style, combined with a mixture of influences across color lines during a transformative era in race relations, brought both great success and initial controversy. He began his music career in 1954 at Sun Records with the producer Sam Phillips, who wanted to bring the sound of African-American music to a wider audience. Presley, on guitar and accompanied by the guitarist Scotty Moore on lead and the bassist Bill Black, was a pioneer of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-driven fusion of country music and rhythm and blues. In 1955, the drummer D. Fontana joined to complete the lineup of Presley's classic quartet and RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, who managed him for the rest of his career. Presley's first RCA Victor single, "Heartbreak Hotel", was released in January 1956 and became a number-one hit in the US. Within a year, RCA Victor sold ten million Presley singles. With a series of successful television appearances and chart-topping records, Presley became the leading figure of the newly popular rock and roll, though his performing style and promotion of the then-marginalized sound of African Americans led to his being widely considered a threat to the moral well-being of white American youth.

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