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My family moved to Memphis when I was 13. After working as a movie theater usher and a truck driver, I began singing locally as "The Hillbilly Cat", then signed with a local recording company, then in 1955 with RCA. I did much to establish early rock and roll music, bringing black blues singing into the white, teenage mainstream. Teenage girls are hysterical over my blatantly sexual gyrations, particularly the one that got me my nicknamed "Elvis the Pelvis" (TV cameras were not permitted to film below my waist). I have sold over 600-million singles and albums.