What did Jerry Lee Lewis died from?
Jerry Lee Lewis was born in Ferriday, Louisiana to Elmo Kidd Lewis Sr. and Mary “Mamie” Herron Lewis. Jerry grew up in Eastern Louisiana in a poor farming family. Jerry Lee Lewis began playing the piano as a child with two cousins, Mickey Gilley (later a popular country music singer) and Jimmy Swaggart (later a…
Jerry Lee Lewis was born in Ferriday, Louisiana to Elmo Kidd Lewis Sr. and Mary “Mamie” Herron Lewis. Jerry grew up in Eastern Louisiana in a poor farming family. Jerry Lee Lewis began playing the piano as a child with two cousins, Mickey Gilley (later a popular country music singer) and Jimmy Swaggart (later a popular televangelist). To buy him a piano, his parents mortgaged their farm. Carl McVoy, an older cousin who later recorded with Bill Black’s Combo, the radio, and the sounds from Haney’s Big House, a black juke joint across the tracks all influenced Lewis. Lewis made his first public appearance with a country and western band on November 19, 1949, at a car dealership in Ferriday.
Jerry Lee Lewis traveled to Memphis, Tennessee, in November 1956 to audition for Sun Records. Although label owner Sam Phillips was in Florida, producer and engineer Jack Clement recorded Lewis’s rendition of Ray Price’s “Crazy Arms” and his own composition “End of the Road.” Lewis began recording prolifically as a solo artist and as a session musician for other Sun artists, including Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash, in December 1956. His distinct piano playing can be heard on many tracks recorded at Sun in late 1956 and early 1957, including Carl Perkins’ “Matchbox,” “Your True Love,” and “Put Your Cat Clothes On,” as well as Billy Lee Riley’s “Flyin’ Saucers Rock’n’Roll.”
What did Jerry Lee Lewis died from?
After several postponed appearances, Jerry Lee Lewis recovered completely. On October 26, 2022, TMZ and other news outlets falsely reported that Lewis had died. He died two days later, on October 28, 2022, at the age of 87, at his home in Nesbit, Mississippi, of pneumonia.
