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Charles Edward Anderson
Charles Edward Anderson “Chuck” Berry (Saint Louis, Missouri, October 18, 1926), better known as Chuck Berry, is one of the most influential composers, singers and guitarists of Rock and Roll history.
It is an influential figure and one of the pioneers of Rock and Roll. In the ’50s, Berry played songs like “Roll Over Beethoven,” “Rock and Roll Music”, “Route 66″ Nat King Cole, “Johnny B. Goode” and “Maybellene.”
He won a Grammy in 1984. In 1989 he published his autobiography.
Rolling Stone presents him as the interpreter # 5 of all time list “The Immortals” surpassed only by The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley and The Rolling Stones.
Charles Edward Anderson Berry was born on October 18, 1926 at 2520 Goode Avenue (now Annie Malone Drive) in St. Louis. His mother, Martha, was a teacher and his father, Henry, contractor and a Baptist deacon. It is the third of six children. Simmons studied at the Grade School and High School Summer latter is the first African-American high school to the west of the Mississippi, which also studied Tina Turner.
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