10 Celebrities You Didn’t Know Were Adopted

Louis Armstrong

The jazz legend, we also know as Satchmo, was adopted by his grandmother as his birth mother was only a teenager when she had him. He was very close to his grandmother but has no fond memories of his birth mother.

Then, the young Armstrong was unofficially adopted by a Jewish family from his neighbourhood. His new family was the one who helped give the musician the cash to buy his first horn. In return, he sported a Star of David necklace in tribute to his adopted family.