Chubby Checker Real Name is Ernest Evans
October 12th, 2006
Celebrity Name : Chubby Checker
Celebrity Real Name : Ernest Evans
Date of Birth : October 3, 1941
Biography :Chubby Checker is the stage name of Ernest Evans (October 3, 1941—), an American singer best known for popularizing the dance The Twist with his 1960 song “The Twist”.
He was born in Spring Gulley, South Carolina[1], 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 singer Fats Domino. In 1964, he married Catharina Lodders, who had been Miss World in 1962.
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Trivia :
* His daughter, Mistie Williams (née Bass), is a professional basketball player for the Houston Comets in the Women’s National Basketball Association.
* Chubby Checker is mentioned in the School House Rock cartoon “A Noun Is A Person, Place, Or Thing.” However, in what is perhaps the series’ most famous error, they depicted him as a white man.
* Chubby Checker headlined the halftime show at Super Bowl XXII.
* Voiced a parody character of himself in the now closed Food Rocks attraction that ran at Epcot, appearing as Chubby Cheddar, a cheese hunk seen only in projected shadow puppetry.[wikipedia]
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