Not that I'm inherently disagreeing with you but there wouldn't be Chuck Berry if it wasn't for the delta and slave blues that preceeded him, certainly in terms of using the pentatonic scale as a basis for popular music. Certainly his sounds were something quite differentFor modern music it's whichever one had a guitar in it, in an unconventional way. Probably Chuck Berry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVT65M4mRnM
Chuck Berry practically invented rock n roll, and his distortion kind of revolutionized the sound of all music that is primarily guitar based.