Little Richard – Tutti Frutti

The African-American rock'n'roll singer, pianist and songwriter Little Richard, born on December 5, 1932 in Georgia as Richard Wayne Penniman, is one of the pioneers and main representatives of rock'n'roll due to his genre-premiering chart successes and much-covered songs, which is why he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 - along with Jerry Lee Lewis and Fats Domino. Little Richard had his most commercially successful phase in the mid-1950s with songs like "Lucille," "Good Golly Miss Molly," "Long Tall Sally" and "The Girl Can't Help It," when he fused elements of blues, gospel and rhythm & blues into rock'n'roll.