Charles Edward Anderson Berry was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who pioneered rock and roll. Cuck Berry was nicknamed the “Father of Rock and Roll”, he refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive with songs such as “Maybellene” (1955), “Roll Over Beethoven” (1956), “Rock and Roll Music” (1957) and “Johnny B. Goode” (1958).
Chuck Berry was born on October 18, 1926, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
Did Chuck Berry invent rock and roll?
According to Cleveland.com’s Troy L. Smith, “Chuck Berry didn’t invent rock and roll all by his lonesome. But he was the man who took rhythm and blues and transformed it into a new genre that would ever change popular music.
Chuck Berry was among the first musicians to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on its opening in 1986; he was cited for having “laid the groundwork for not only a rock and roll sound but a rock and roll stance
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