Cole Porter was born in Peru, Indiana, in 1891. He went to Yale University, and he got horrible grades but he wrote and performed more than 300 songs for school shows. Porter was gay, but he married a close friend, the socialite Linda Thomas, to keep up appearances.
In the 1920s, he and Linda moved to Paris. They had lavish parties at their apartment, and Cole Porter played songs for his guests while they lounged on his zebra-print furniture. In 1928, he got his break with the hit "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love," in which he sang: "Birds do it. Bees do it. Even educated fleas do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love."
He wrote musicals, including Anything Goes (1934) and Kiss Me, Kate (1948), which is based on a Shakespeare play, The Taming of the Shrew. He went on to write many songs that are still popular today, like "I Get a Kick Out of You," "Night and Day," and "I've Got You Under My Skin."
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