My own life planning has always been 10 years ahead. I knew when I was 13 that this was what I wanted to be. Right now I feel about nine months behind where I would have liked to be at age 46. Ten years from now, I'd like to be doing what I'm doing and collecting more interest.
"Chubby Checker" is an United States/American singer-songwriter. He is widely known for popularizing the Twist (dance)/twist dance style, with his 1960 hit record/hit cover version/cover of Hank Ballard's Rhythm and blues/R&B hit "The Twist (song)/The Twist". In September 2008 "The Twist" topped Billboard (magazine)/Billboard's list of the most popular single (music)/singles to have appeared in the Billboard Hot 100/Hot 100 since its debut in 1958, an honor it maintained for an August 2013 update of the list. He also popularized the Limbo Rock and its trademark limbo dance, as well as various dance styles such as the fly.
Checker is the only recording artist to place five albums in the Top 12 all at once. The performer has often claimed to have personally changed the way we dance to the beat of music, as when he told Billboard magazine/Billboard, "Anyplace on the planet, when someone has a song that has a beat, they're on the floor dancing apart to the beat. And before Chubby Checker, it wasn't here." Clay Cole agreed: "Chubby Checker has never been properly acknowledged for one major contribution to pop culture—Chubby and the Twist got adults out and onto the dance floor for the very first time. Before Twist (dance)/the Twist dance phenomenon, grownups did not dance to teenage music."
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous musicians! More Chubby Checker on Wikipedia.It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.
I want people to look at a checkerboard and think of me!
God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK.
What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops.
Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.
Homey don't quit. What else are you gonna do? It's like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it's over they check the clock and go home. That's how it goes.
I am the Alexander Graham Bell of the phone company, the Christopher Columbus of America because after 'The Twist' everything changed, ... Watch the films from 1958 up to 1959, and watch American Bandstand during that time. After the song came out, everything was different.
My stage performance is all I got going for me and believe me I perfected it to an art. That's why I'm still singing in the business because of my stage performance-it's exquisite. It is Picasso. It is Rembrandt.
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