# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chuck-berry
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:12:28.425Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chuck-berry"
name: "Chuck Berry"
slug: "chuck-berry"
description: "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."
tagline: "American musician (1926–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chuck_Berry_(8275961).jpeg"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1926-10-18"
deathDate: "2017-03-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 14100
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    handle:    "@chuckberryvevo"
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    title: "Chuck Berry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chuck Berry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chuck Berry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chuck Berry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Τσακ Μπέρι"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chuck Berry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chuck Berry"
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    title: "Chuck Berry"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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