B.B. King

Biography

Riley B. King, 16 September 1925, Indianola, Mississippi, USA. The son of a sharecropper, King went to work on the plantation like any other young black in Mississippi, but he had sung in amateur gospel groups from childhood. By the age of 16, he was also playing blues guitar and singing on street corners. When he was 20 years old, he temporarily quit sharecropping and went to Memphis, where he busked, and shared a room for almost a year with his second cousin, Bukka White. However, it was not... Read more

Genres

Blues Blues Christian & Gospel Comedy Movies Country & Bluegrass Documentaries Holiday & Seasonal Jazz Jazz Music Videos & Concerts Musicals & The Arts Pop / Rock Pop / Rock R&B / Soul R&B / Soul Soundtrack Television

Tags

blues

guitar

blues rock

jazz

classic rock

Decades

1980s 1990s 2000s

Links

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