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 Comedy Movies Country & Bluegrass Documentaries Holiday & Seasonal Jazz Music & Radio Books Music Videos & Concerts Pop / Rock Pop / Rock R&B / Soul R&B / Soul Soundtrack Television

Tags

blues

guitar

blues rock

jazz

classic rock

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