BB King (1925) Riley B. King aka BB King, born September 16, 1925 in Itta Bena, Mississippi USA, is an American blues guitarist. With a long career behind him, is now one of the most important living bluesmen. With his "Lucille", a Gibson ES-335, has become an icon of the same genre as early as the fifties.
King spent much of his childhood living with his mother and grandmother, working as a sharecropper. As a young man, King was a brother to blacks singers like T-Bone Walker and Lonnie Johnson and artists jazz such as Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt. King soon began to practice singing gospel music in church.
In 1943, King moved to Indianola, Mississippi, and three years later in Memphis, Tennessee, where he refined his technique as a guitarist with the help of his cousin, country blues guitarist Bukka White.
Eventually, King began to broadcast his music live on Radio Memphis WDIA, a station that had recently changed its programming to broadcast only black music, which is extremely rare at the time. King began to use the radio as The Pepticon Boy, which later became The Beale Street Blues Boy. The name was later shortened to Blues Boy and, finally, BB
In 1949, King began recording songs for the RPM Records in Los Angeles. Most of his early recordings were produced by Sam Phillips, who later would found the legendary Sun Records.
In the fifties, King became one of the leading exponents of the R & B scene by collecting a long list of hits including "You Know I Love You," "Woke Up This Morning," "Please Love Me," "When My Heart Beats like a Hammer, "" Whole Lotta 'Love, "" You Upset Me Baby, "" Every Day I Have the Blues, "" Sneakin' Around, "" Ten Long Years, "" Bad Luck, "" Sweet Little Angel "" On My Word of Honor "and" Please Accept My Love. " In 1962, King signed to ABC-Paramount Records.
In November 1964, King recorded at the Regal Theater in Chicago the album Live at the Regal, which was soon to become legendary.
In the decades since King has less and less without losing popularity due to participation in TV shows, movies and taking about 300 nights every year. In 1988 he gained a new generation of fans thanks to the single "When Love Comes To Town", played along with U2.
(Text taken from wikipedia.org)
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