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Louis Farrakhan (born Louis Eugene Walcott, May 11, 1933 in the Bronx, New York), is the head of the Nation of Islam Farrakhan was raised within the West Indian community in the Roxbury section of Boston, Massachusetts. His mother had emigrated from Saint Kitts and Nevis in the 1920s; his father was a Jamaican cab driver from New York, but was not involved in his upbringing. As a child, he received training as a violinist. At the age of six, he was given his first violin and by the age of 13, he had played with the Boston College Orchestra and the Boston Civic Symphony. A year later, Louis went on to win national competitions, as well as the Ted Mack Original Amateur Hour. He was one of the first blacks to appear on the popular show. In Boston, Farrakhan attended the prestigious Boston Latin School and English High School, graduating from the latter. He attended college for two years at Winston-Salem State University teachers college, but left to be with his wife in Boston who was with child. The way the baby was positioned inside of his wife, it would touch a nerve and literally take her feet from under her. Louis decided that he could not fully concentrate on school knowing that his wife and child might be in potential danger. In the 1950s, Farrakhan became an up-and-coming calypso singer. He recorded several calypso albums under the name "The Charmer." In 1955, while headlining a show in Chicago entitled "Calypso Follies," he first came in contact with the teachings of the Nation of Islam. Farrakhan joined the Nation of Islam in July of 1955. Thirty days after joining, Elijah Muhammad stated that all musicians in the NOI had thirty days from the date of this announcement to give up the music world completely. Farrakhan did so almost instantly. He performed one last time at the Nevel Country Club and did everything he knew how to do related to show business. After the show that day, he was approached by the high profile manager of Pearl Bailey and Billie Daniels. He asked if he could be Farrakhan's manager, and if so he would pay him $500.00 a week. In 1955 $500.00 was more like $5,000.00 by today's standard. Farrakhan turned him down flat.