- Fats Trivia: He was born "Antoine Dominique Domino Jr." on February 26, 1928 in New Orleans, Louisiana, the youngest of eight children.
- Fats Trivia: Louisiana (French) Creole was his first language.
- Fats Trivia: He learned to play the piano from his brother-in-law, the jazz guitarist Harrison Verrett.
- Fats Trivia: He made his first public performance at age 10.
- Fats Trivia: By age 14, he was performing in New Orleans bars. In 1947, Billy Diamond, a New Orleans bandleader, accepted an invitation to hear the young pianist perform at a backyard barbecue...
- ... Impressed by his musical ability, Diamond asked him to join his band, the Solid Senders, at the Hideaway Club in New Orleans, where he would earn $3 a week playing the piano.
- Fats Trivia: Diamond nicknamed him "Fats" because Domino reminded him of the renowned pianists Fats Waller and Fats Pichon, but also because of his large appetite.
- Fats Trivia: His first single, "The Fat Man", released in 1949, was a toned down version of a song about drug addicts, and is considered by many to be the first true rock and roll song.
- Fats Trivia: He crossed over into pop (#10) with "Ain't It a Shame" in 1955, but Pat Boone's version was the one that reached No. 1.
- Fats Trivia: He sold an estimated 65 million albums in the 1950`s and early 1960`s. Only Elvis Presley sold more.
- Fats Trivia: "Ain't It A "Shame" was the very first song John Lennon ever learned to play on guitar.
- Fats Trivia: He was married to Rosemary Domino from 1947 until her death in 2008 and was the father of eight children.
- Fats Trivia: Even after his success, he continued to live in his old neighborhood, the lower Ninth Ward, until after Hurricane Katrina when he moved to a suburb of New Orleans.
- Fats Trivia: In 1955, he was said to be earning $10,000 a week while touring, according to a report in the memoir of artist Chuck Berry.
- Fats Trivia: He had 35 records in the U.S. Billboard Top 40, and five of his pre-1955 records sold more than a million copies, being certified gold.
- Fats Trivia: "Blueberry Hill" was his highest charting single.
- Fats Trivia: The singer Chubby Checker`s stage name was a word play on Fats Domino.
- Fats Trivia: Pat Boone renamed Fats` "Ain't It a Shame" to "Ain't That a Shame" and took it to the top of the pop charts.
- Fats Trivia: In all, an astounding 37 of his songs reached the "Top 40" and another 59 on the "R&B" charts.
- Fats Trivia: He had a cameo in the 1980 movie Any Which Way You Can starring Clint Eastwood.
- Fats Trivia: President Bush presented him with a new National Medal of the Arts, because his first one was lost during Hurricane Katrina.
- Fats Trivia: Sadly Fats Domino passed away at age 89 on October 24, 2017, in Harvey, LA.
