Wow, Chubby Checker is 85- years-old and still kicking it (video link below). Move over Mick Jagger. Chubby has come a long way from the South Philly projects where he grew up. One of his classmates and friends at South Philadelphia High School was Fabian Forte, who would become a popular performer of the late 1950s and early 1960s as Fabian.