He is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, born October 18, 1926 in St. Louis, Missouri.

He is an influential figure and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's website, "While no individual can be said to have invented rock and roll, Chuck Berry comes the closest of any single figure to being the one who put all the essential pieces together."

He is the first and one of its greatest early songwriters and guitarists, the main shaper of its instrumental voice and one of its greatest performers.

Berry was among the first musicians to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on its opening in 1986. He received Kennedy Center Honors in 2000 in a "class" with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Plácido Domingo, Angela Lansbury, and Clint Eastwood. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Chuck Berry #5 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. He was also ranked 6th on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.

Berry's incredible success is due to his ability to articulate the concerns and attitudes of his audience in his music.

Of all the early breakthrough rock & roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. For this reason, tunes like "Johnny B. Goode," "Maybellene" and "Memphis" have become anthems to an integrated American youth and popular culture. Berry is a musical icon who established rock and roll as a musical form and brought the worlds of black and white together in song.

It was in 1953 that Chuck Berry began playing guitar and singing in a club band whose song list ranged from blues to ballads to calypso to country. Country-western music was big at the time, so Berry decided to use some of the riffs and create his own unique hillbilly sound. The black audience thought he was crazy at first, but couldn't resist trying to dance along with it. Berry's stage show antics were getting attention.

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.

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