Cliff Edwards - Biography

Becoming popular with playing the ukulele, his unique singing and supplying the voice of animated movies, Cliff Edwards was one of the most popular singers in America.

Born in Hannibal, Missouri, Edwards left school at the age of 14, moved to St. Louis, and started to work as a singer in saloons. Edwards then taught himself to play the ukulele. He got his nickname, "Ukelele Ike", from a club owner who couldn't remember his name.

Entering in the vaudeville circuit, he finally made it big. When entering into movies, one of his first movies he made was his most noticeable: Hollywood chante et danse (1929). Eleven years later, he was immortalized in Disney's Pinocchio (1940).