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Chubby Checker is the stage name of Ernest Evans (born 3 October 1941), an American singer-songwriter best known for popularizing the dance The Twist with his 1960 song "The Twist". In September 2008, "The Twist" topped Billboard's list of the most popular singles to have appeared in the Hot 100 since its debut in 1958.
He was born in Spring Gulley, SC, USA, and raised in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended South Philadelphia High School with Frankie Avalon and Fabian. The wife of American Bandstand's host Dick Clark suggested the name "Chubby Checker" to Evans as a take-off on then-popular...
A house/electronica duo based in Berlin, Germany.
www.myspace.com/chubbydubz .
Popa Chubby (Theodore Joseph Horowitz, born 31. March 1960 in New York) is a New York blues singer and guitar player. His angry and aggressive style of blues is influenced heavily by Willie Dixon. Like Jerry Lewis, he is more popular in France than the U.S.
Popa Chubby is a true native son of the Big Apple. He was born in the Bronx and grew up in a neighborhood made famous by Robert De Niro in the movie A Bronx Tale. His parents owned a candy store on the corner of 181st Street and Arthur Avenue. His early memories of...
Chubby Parker is a pseudonym of Frederick R. Parker. In the 1920’s, for listeners of Chicago-based radio station WLS, Chubby Parker & His Old Time Banjo was a very popular act, entertaining the audience with his repertoire of funny songs, country songs and “negro” songs. Singing, strumming his five-string banjo, blowing his harmonica, whistling a bit, he was a much loved figure before going to oblivion in the depression era, like many others. His most enduring song is undoubtedly 'King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O' (aka 'Froggy Went A-Courtin'), which was selected by musicologist Harry Smith for his Smithsonian Anthology Of...
Danielle Baquet-Long (31 July 1982 – 8 July 2009), also known as Chubby Wolf, was an American drone / ambient musician, who also performed as half of the duo Celer with her husband Will Long.
She was a painter, photographer, writer of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, a vocalist, and a self-taught musician and composer. In Dani and Will’s time together, they produced numerous custom, handmade self-releases on CD-R, sound and art for installations and art exhibitions, and many works for independent labels in North America, Europe, and Asia. Her unpublished music, writing, and photography continue to be published, managed lovingly by...
