Chuck Berry
This is about who is really the king of rock and roll, Chuck Berry was a composer, interpreter and guitarist from the United States. He is considered one of the most recognized influential in the history of Rock and Roll. Chuck Berry was born in Saint Louis, United States, on March 18, 1926.
His music and style was in 1952 Chuck Berry joined a "Combo" formed by the pianist Johnnie Johnson and the drummer Ebby Ard, so Berry started playing professionally, worked with the genres with which he grew up as the Country, Blues, Boogie-Woogie, Swing , Big Band and pop, is how it started to stand out in music. He himself wrote his songs, where he was successful with the song "Maybellene". Chuck Berry innovated in the lyrical field
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One of his style was the song Ida Red, which was a mix of country and blues, which succeeded and was renamed as "Maybellene". His attire was simple, he wore a suit or a colored shirt with a jacket.
His career began selling their all his recordings, in 1957 he sold After School
Session, in 1958: One Dozen Berrys, 1959: Chuck Berry Is on Top and so on until 2017 with the latest discography "Chuck". He did not appeal to the black and white public, these to appeal to the black and white public was important in those times because racism was very important in those times. The duration of his career continued after the 50s, and until the year 2016 (90 years) where he released his new album, scheduled for 2017 "Chuck".
He testimonies about Chuck Berry was very influential to other musicians such as The
Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Rollings Stone, John Lennon, including the president, Bill Clinton who had discovered him as "One of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century." He was considered one of the most influential due to his way of playing the guitar, his music and also how he moved on stage with his guitar solo dance "Duck Walk", besides his personal characteristics he also had the quality to have fun and entertain the