What race was chuck berry?

Answer 1

Chuck Berry is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music.

• October 18, 1926: Charles ("Chuck") Edward Anderson Berry was born in St. Louis, Missouri
• December 31, 1952: Needing a replacement for an ailing saxophonist for a New Year's Eve show, pianist/bandleader Johnnie Johnson calls a guitar-playing acquaintance named Chuck Berry
• 1955: Chess releases Berry's "Maybelline" and Bo Diddley's "Bo Diddley" Diddley's single is released on Chess Record's subsidiary label, Checker
• May 1, 1955: Berry signs with Chess Records, landing a contract on the strength of his songwriting
• May 21, 1955: Berry records "Maybellene" - an uptempo rewrite of the country-flavored "Ida Red"; the first of Berry's many hits for Chess Records
• 1955: Berry hits #2 on the R&B chart with the Chess single "Thirty Days"
• August 1, 1955: "Maybellene" reaches #5 on Billboard's Best Sellers chart and tops the R&B chart for eleven weeks
• June 30, 1956: Berry hits #2 on the R&B chart and #29 on the pop chart with the Chess single "Roll Over Beethoven"
• January 21, 1957: Berry records "School Days" on Chess Records
• May 1, 1957: Berry's first LP, After School Session, is released
• May 13, 1957: Berry hits #1 on the R&B chart and #3 on the pop chart with "School Day" and #6 on the R&B chart and #8 (12/23) on the pop chart with "Rock and Roll Music." Both singles are released on Chess Records
• September - November, 1957: Berry tours with the "Biggest Show of Stars for '57," sharing stages with Buddy Holly, the Drifters, Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, the Everly Brothers, Clyde McPhatter and more
• February 24, 1958: Berry's biggest hit of the rock & roll era, "Sweet Little Sixteen," is released. It reaches #2 on Billboard's pop chart (held back from the top position by the Champs' "Tequila") and #1 on the R&B chart
• March 17, 1958: Berry hits #1 on the R&B chart and #2 on the pop chart with "Sweet Little Sixteen" and #2 on the R&B chart and #8 (6/09) on the pop chart with "Johnny B. Goode"
• June 14, 1958: The rock and roll classic "Johnny B. Goode," written by Berry about pianist/sidekick Johnnie Johnson, makes the Top Ten
• 1959: Berry hits #3 on the R&B chart and #32 (5/04) on the pop chart with the Chess single "Almost Grown"
• May 31, 1961: Berryland Amusement Park opens outside St. Louis
• October 24, 1964: Berry appears in the TAMI ("Teen-Age Music International") Show with The Rolling Stones, James Brown, the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, Marvin Gaye, the Supremes, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, and others (The concert, held in Santa Monica, California, is released the next year as a feature film)
• October 28-29, 1964: The concert film The TAMI Show is recorded in Santa Monica, CA
• June 1, 1966: Berry leaves Chess for Mercury Records
• May 1, 1972: The London Chuck Berry Sessions was released (It became Berry's best-selling album, reaching #8 on the Billboard chart and earning gold-record status)
• October 21, 1972: Berry's only #1 hit, the novelty song "My Ding-a-Ling," reaches the top of the charts (originally recorded as "My Tambourine" back in 1958)
• 1973: After 30 years, pianist Johnnie Johnson leaves Berry's band
• March 1, 1978: Berry plays himself in American Hot Wax, a film biography of seminal rock and roll deejay Alan Freed
• June 1, 1979: Berry performs at the White House at the request of President Jimmy Carter
• February 26, 1985: Berry is given a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 27th Annual Grammy Awards (cited as "one of the most influential and creative innovators in the history of American popular music")
• January 23, 1986: Berry is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the first induction dinner
• October 8, 1987: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll, a movie documentary and concert tribute to Berry, with Keith Richards as musical director, debuted
• September 2, 1995: Backed by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Berry performs "Johnny B. Goode" and "Rock and Roll Music" at the Concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland

Answer 2

This would depend on what type of items you are selling, and also would be influenced by where you are working. For example, the average for a commissioned sales rep in Orlando may be 44K, while the average in Tampa may be 65K.

Answer 3

He was African American, but also had an appreciable amount of Native American heritage (one great-grandparent or something like that).

Answer 4

He did play Country Music and was influenced by it and adapted some of it, but he is more known for Rock & Roll and also for Rhythm & Blues.

Answer 5

Chuck Berry was born on October 18, 1926.