Chuck Berry Net Worth

Chuck Berry‘s net worth: Chuck Berry was an American musician, guitarist, singer and songwriter who had a net worth of $ 10 million. Chuck Berry was born Charles Edward Anderson Berry in St. Louis, Missouri, in October 1926. He was the fourth of six children. Chuck pursued a passion for music from a very early age, but his first official performance was not performed until he was at Sumner High School. In 1944, when he was in high school, Berry was arrested and went to jail for armed robbery. While in reform school he formed a singing quartet. The quartet became popular enough for the guards to allow them to act outside the detention center. He was released on his 21st birthday. After being released, Chuck got married and worked in an automobile assembly plant. In 1955, he met Muddy Waters in Chicago. Waters suggested that Berry get in touch with Leonard Chess from Chess Records. Chess helped him record “Maybellene” and the song sold more than a million copies and reached number 1 on the Billboard Rhythm & Blues list. He also started his own nightclub in St. Louis. Berry would eventually be known as a pioneer of rock and roll music. Berry was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. Rolling Stone named him the fifth greatest artist of all time. His greatest hits also include “Roll Over Beethoven,” “Rock and Roll Music” and “Johnny B. Goode.” Berry released 20 studio albums and continued on tour later in life. It is rumored that Chuck listened to rock and roll the first time after receiving a call from his cousin Marvin Berry on November 12, 1955. Chuck Berry died on March 18, 2017 at the age of 90.