Chuck Berry with Johnnie Johnson (1926–54)
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Berry was the fourth child of a family of six. He grew up in North St. Louis neighborhood known as "City", an area where many middle class St. Louis living at the time. His father was a contractor and a deacon Baptist church nearby, his mother a qualified head. Middle class education allowed him to pursue his interest in music at an early age and he is giving the public the results of the first time in 1941 while continuing to Sumner High School [9] alone. Three years later, in 1944, while continuing to Sumner High School, he was arrested and convicted of armed robbery after robbing three stores in Kansas City and then stole a car at gunpoint with several friends. Berry own account in his autobiography is that his car broke down and then scored by a passing car and steal the threat with a weapon non-functional. Berry sent to orphanages for young men through to Algoa, near Jefferson City, Missouri, [8] where he formed a quartet to sing and do boxing.
After his release from prison in 1947 at age 21, married Berry Themetta "Toddy" Suggs on October 28, 1948 gave birth to Darlin Ingrid Berry October 3, 1950. Berry supports his family doing a job in St. Louis: work short as factory workers at two car assembly plants, as well as caretaker of the apartment building where he lived with his wife. After that, he trained as a beautician in cosmetology Poro College, founded by Annie Turnbo Malone [15] It was pretty good in 1950. The purchase of a "small three brick houses with a bathroom" in Whittier Street , which are now in the list of national historic sites.
