199 Chuck Berry (1926-2017) “Brown Eyed Handsome Man” 1956

“It was in the Ville, one of the few neighborhoods in St. Louis where African Americans could own property, that Berry spent his formative years, honing his musical skills as a choir boy in his Baptist church, and as a bass singer in his high school glee club. At the urging of a music teacher, he bought a four-string tenor guitar (graduating later to a six-string guitar) and taught himself how to play” (Contemporary Musicians).

Chuck Berry (1926- ) “Brown Eyed Handsome Man”