Chubby Checker
USA
Born: 03 October 1941
Years Active: 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Styles: Early R&B, R&B/Soul, Rock & Roll, Rock & Roll/Roots
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Chubby Checker was the unrivaled king of the rock & roll dance craze; although most of the dances his records promoted -- the Pony, "the Fly," and the Hucklebuck, to cite just three -- have long since faded into obscurity, his most famous hit, "The Twist," remains the yardstick against which all subsequent dancefloor phenomena are measured. Born Ernest Evans on October 3, 1941, in Spring Gulley, South Carolina, he worked in a local poultry shop while in high school, and while on the job often entertained customers by singing and cracking jokes....
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