# Chuck Berry

> He didn't invent rock and roll, but he gave it the blueprint: the guitar licks, the duck walk, the teen anthems about cars and girls. Without "Johnny B. Goode" and "Maybellene", the genre stays formless.

*American musician (1926–2017)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/chuck-berry

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Singer / Musician ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220))
- **Category:** Musicians
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1926-10-18
- **Died:** 2017-03-18
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Charles Edward Anderson Berry was born into a middle-class Black family in St. Louis on October 18, 1926. He gave his first public performance at Sumner High School, but while still a student he was convicted of armed robbery and spent 1944 to 1947 in a reformatory. After his release he worked at an automobile assembly plant and by early 1953, influenced by blues guitarist T-Bone Walker, began performing with the Johnnie Johnson Trio. His break came in May 1955 when he met Muddy Waters in Chicago, who sent him to Leonard Chess; Berry recorded "Maybellene"—his reworking of the country song "Ida Red"—and it sold over a million copies, hitting number one on Billboard's rhythm and blues chart. By decade's end he was a star with hit records, film appearances, and his own St. Louis nightclub, but in January 1962 he was sentenced to three years in prison under the Mann Act for transporting a 14-year-old girl across state lines for sex. Released in 1963, he had more successful songs including "No Particular Place to Go" and the novelty "My Ding-a-Ling"—his only number-one single—but none matched the lasting power of his 1950s work, and by the 1970s he was playing nostal

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 75.3 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.5 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 27.6 / 100
- **Now attention:** 2.3 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 90.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 90.0 / 100
- **Total followers across platforms:** 14,100

## Platforms
- **INSTAGRAM**: https://www.instagram.com/_chuckberry/ (@_chuckberry)
- **FACEBOOK**: https://www.facebook.com/ChuckBerry (@ChuckBerry)
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001946/ (@nm0001946)
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- **WEBSITE**: https://www.chuckberry.com/
- **YOUTUBE**: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk0YBqtXKF9p-nfyjVoW9Cg (@@chuckberryvevo, 14,100 followers)

## Topics
#Musicians, #Singer / Musician, #Singer-Songwriter, #Classical, #Music, #United States, #Americas, #20th Century

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