MEXICO CITY, Mexico, May. 15, 2015.- born on September 16, 1925 and christened Riley Ben King, but the world knew him as BB King.
In 1948, played his guitar in Memphis in the radio program of Sonny Boy Williamson II, where he began to develop a local public.
The King led appearances firm commitments in the Sixteenth Avenue Grill in West Memphis, and at a spot ten minutes in the legendary radio station WDIA Memphis. King’s Spot became popular and was expanded into the Sepia Swing Club.
At first, he worked in the WDIA as a singer and disc jockey, nicknamed Beale Street Blues Boy, which was shortened later to Blues Boy and finally BB13 In WDIA met T-Bone Walker.
In 1947, BB King began recording songs under contract with RPM Records based in Los Angeles. . Many of the first recordings of King were produced by Sam Phillips, who later founded Sun Records
In the 1950s, BB King became one of the biggest names in R & Music; B, with a string of hits under his belt that included songs like “You Know I Love You”, “Woke Up This Morning”, “Please Love Me,” “When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer,” “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”.
First he had success outside of the blues market with the 1969 remake of the Roy Hawkins tune, “The Thrill Is Gone,” which became a hit. He rose to the position 183 in the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time Rolling Stone. He won the opening visibility in American Tour 1969 Rolling Stones. King’s success continued throughout the seventies with songs like “To Know You Is to Love You” and “I Like to Live the Love.” Between 1951 and 1985, King appeared on the charts of R &. B of Billboard magazine 74 times
Among the eighties and nineties, King recorded less but maintained a highly visible and active career. He appeared in numerous television shows and performed up to 300 concerts a year. In 1988, he reached a new generation of fans with the song “When Love Comes To Town” with his U2 Rattle and Hum album.
A few years earlier in 1988 held a special BB King BB Kings and Friends with Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Gladys Knight, Paul Butterfield, Chaka Khan and Billy Ocean, that year will go with Albert King to another pre-Grammy celebration. In 2000, King joined with Clapton to record Riding with the King.
In 2003, King shared the stage with the rock band Phish in New Jersey, performing three of his classics for 30 minutes.
In June 2006, King attended the commemoration of his first radio transmission in Three Deuces Building in Greenwood, Mississippi, where an official mark of the Mississippi Blues Trail was built.
B. B. King also made an appearance at the Crossroads Guitar Festival launched by Eric Clapton. On the DVD he plays “Rock Me Baby” with Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy and Jimmie Vaughan and Bonnie Rait.
In its 80 years, the March 29, 2006, King played at the stadium Hallam Arena Sheffield in the first part of his tour of the UK and Europe. He did this tour with ex-shredder / rocker turned into blues, Gary Moore, with whom King had previously done other tours, including the song “Since I Met You Baby”. This tour ended on April 4 with a concert at Wembley Arena.
In July 2006, King returned to Europe and then decided to make his farewell in Switzerland, playing twice (2 and 3 July) at the fourteenth edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival and in Zurich in the “Blues at Sunset” on July 14. During his last performance in Montreux, in the Stravinski Hall, he played with Joe Sample, Randy Crawford, David Sanborn, Gladys Knight, Lella James, Earl Thomas, Stanley Clarke, John McLaughlin, Barbara Hendricks and George Duke. The Farewell Tour ended in Luxembourg on September 19, 2006 at the D’Coque stadium.
During a press conference on November 29 in São Paulo, a journalist asked King if that would be the final farewell tour. King said: “One of my favorite actors is a man from Scotland named Sean Connery Most of you know him as James Bond, 007. He made a movie called Never Say Never Again.”
In June. 2010, made a brief tour of Spain, performing his classic topics in Madrid and Valladolid.
B. B. King was licensed, player and vegetarian, non-drinker and non-smoker since age 60 pilot. King lived almost ten years with diabetes and was a visible spokesman in the fight against this disease.
King died in his sleep at his home in Las Vegas, according to information provided by his lawyer.
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