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On 12 June 2012, Davis and French singer Édith Piaf were pictured on separate commemorative postage stamps in a joint issue by the USA and France. The nondenominated 'forever' USA stamps had an initial issue price of 45¢ each; the French stamps had denominations of 0,60 EUR (Davis) and 0,89 EUR (Piaf).

He was posthumously awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 7060 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 19, 1998.

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 3, 1991-1993, pp. 123-125. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (2001).

He was awarded a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame at 6314 Delmar Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri on May 20, 1990 (five days before his 64th birthday).

Jazz trumpeter, acclaimed for his impact on both jazz and rock music. He was inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame (1979), the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2006), and voted the 88th Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Artist of all time by Rolling Stone.

He retired from music in 1975 due to hip problems as well as his problems with drug addiction.

Miles Davis' recording, "Kind of Blue" (1959), is considered by some to be the best jazz recording of all time.

He changed the directions of jazz several times, recording albums such as "Birth Of The Cool" (1949) which started the cool-jazz era, "Milestones" (1953), "Kind Of Blue" (1959) which was the beginning of modal jazz, orchestral jazz masterpieces such as "Porgy And Bess" (1958) and "Sketches Of Spain" (1961), "In A Silent Way" (1968) and "Bitches Brew" (1969) - the first jazz/rock fusion albums. He collaborated with famous jazz players such as: Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Chick Corea, Philly Joe Jones, Joe Zawinul, Paul Chambers, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, John McLaughlin, Keith Jarrett and others.

His record debut came in 1946. Miles soon became a major figure of jazz.

He moved to New York in 1944 and studied at Juilliard. He left school and entered the jazz society of New York, meeting such famous musicians as Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker and Charles Mingus.

Miles Davis, famous jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader, was born 26 May 1926 in Alton, Illinois.