B.B. King

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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

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B.B. King

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Genres Blues Blues Christian & Gospel Comedy Movies Country & Bluegrass Documentaries Holiday & Seasonal Jazz Music & Radio Books 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 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s

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

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blues

guitar

blues rock

jazz

classic rock

Decades

1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s

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allmusic bbc music page discogs facebook image imdb last.fm lyrics myspace official homepage rateyourmusic.com secondhandsongs viaf wikidata wikipedia youtube