THE BIRTH OF BING AND A VOICE THAT WOULD CHANGE MUSIC FOREVER

On May 3, 1903, in the quiet city of Tacoma, Washington, a baby boy was born who would one day become the most influential voice in American popular music. His name was Harry Lillis Crosby—though the world would come to know him simply as Bing. Harry was the fourth of seven children in a close-knit Irish-American family. His father, Harry Lowe Crosby, worked as a bookkeeper, while his mother,…