B.B. King was a blues singer and guitarist. His full name is Riley B. King. He was born September 16, 1925, near Indianola, Mississippi. An important aspect in King's life was, of course, when he was first exposed to the blues. 'I guess the earliest sound of the blues that I can rremember was in the fields while people would be pickin' cotton or choppin' or somethin,' " he told Living Blues . " When I sing and play now I can hear those same sounds that I used to hear then as a kid."
B.B. King's first musical influence came through religion. He was a member of the Church of God In Christ. He was forbidden to play blues at home. He sang in spiritual groups like the Elkhorn Singers and the Saint John's Gospel Singers. A relative who was a guitarist and a preacher showed King his first chords on the instrument. As a teenager he began playing streetcorners for coins, combining gospel songs with the blues. When he started making more money playing in one night then he would in a week on the farm, he decided to head to Memphis. After a few years, King went back to Indianola to work and repay some debts, eventually returning to Memphis to stay. King's trademark is the trilling vibrato he developed in an attempt to duplicate the stinging sound of the steel slide. With the help of the late Sonny Boy William- son he began singing radio commercials and became a disc jockey. Later he played in small clubs, and then in larger venues in the mid-1960's. He has toured extensively through- out the United States and around the world, appearing in concerts, at blues festivals, on television, and in films. How did Riley B. King receive the nickname B.B. King? Well, he was known as " the blues boy from Beale Street," later shortened to B.B. "Riley B. King is the world's preeminent blues guitarist. There is hardly a rock, pop, or blues player anywhere who doesn't owe him something.
Coretta Scott King was born on April 27, 1927 in Heiberger, Alabama. Heiberger was a small segregated town. Coretta’s parents were Obadiah and Bernice Scott. She has an older sister named Edythe and a younger brother, Obie. Coretta was named after her grandmother Cora Scott. Her family was hard working and devoted Christians. Coretta had a strong temper, feared no one and stood up for herself.
Thomas King is a multi-talented and accomplished writer who expresses concerns of Aboriginal people through literature. He was born in 1943 in Sacramento California to a Cherokee father and a German and Greek mother and grew up in Sacramento.
The Godfather of Soul Introduction We will look into the life of James Brown. He is known for his music. In his life, he had to face many obstacles, but through determination, he changed his life cycle. We will touch on the influences in his life, developmental stage and theories that best fit his personality. James Brown was born on May 3, 1933, in South Carolina.
Joe “King” Oliver and his band were the most famous in the 1920’s, he was from New Orleans originally and eve...
Because of Elvis Presley’s leadership in the world of rock and roll, he changed America’s idea of modern music, revolutionized the way movies are seen, and influenced teens and adults in the 50s. Elvis Aaron Presley, often called the King, was born on January 8, 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi. Growing up, Elvis had always been fond of music and dancing (New). He grew up in a small family as an only child. He was supposed to have a twin brother, but he was stillborn.
Another very popular artist during the 1950’s was a man known as B.B. King. He was born with the name Riley B.King but later on went by the stage name of B.B. King (Wilson 1). He was known as the “King of the blues” because of his love for blues jazz. He was also known as the “ambassador of the blues .” B.B. King kept up traditional blues trends while also keeping up with modern music trends during the 1950s (Wilson 1). He was best known for his single note solos on his well known Gibson guitar, “...
The man today known as Nat "King" Cole was actually born in Nathaniel Adams Coles, in Montgomery, Alabama on March 17, 1917. By the age of four, his father, Edward James Coles Sr. and his mother, Perlina Adams Coles, decided it would be best that the family move to Chicago. By the time Nat reached four years of age, his father quit his job as a grocer and moved his family to Chicago, where he became a preacher.
Even though Elvis Presley did not create rock and roll, he was the driving force behind it. The term “Rock and Roll” was used to describe the new music that was taking shape. It was first used by a disc jockey named Alan Freed in Cleveland Ohio. This genre of music was influenced by country music, gospel, rhythm, and blues (Waltos, Goodrich, and DiSalvo). Record producers wanted a white artist who could make African American music since they saw a lot ...
"The Notorious B.I.G" real government name was "Christopher walker. He was born in New York, Brooklyn May,21,1972. His life wasn’t easy at all but wasn’t the worse. His parents were Jamaican his mother was Volleta Wallace, a preschool teacher and his father was George Latore,
Dr. King was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. His real name was Michael King Jr., but legally changed it to Martin Luther King Jr. When he was older, he graduated from Boston University and later attended Morehouse College
Riley B. King, known as B.B King was born September 16, 1928 in the hamlet of Berclair, Mississippi near the town of Itta Bena. His parents Albert and Nora Ell King were sharecroppers who divorced when he was four years old. He lived with his mother until she passed away when he was nine and was later raised by a host of his relatives that included uncles, aunts, and kind white plantation owners. Some of his first exposure to music was from the singing of workers in fields and from the guitar playing of a reverend in a local church. His mother passed on her devout Baptist nature and it led to him becoming the lead singer in the Holiness church’s gospel choir. He was heavily influenced by the recordings of Lonnie Johnson and Blind Lemon Johnson. He is known to have blended aspects of the blues with that of Jazz by borrowing techniques of famed Jazz guitarist Django Reinhart and saxophonist Lester Young.
They were a mixture of story telling and talking with a definite call and response. Religious music was very important in forming blues music. Because most blacks went to Christian churches from an early age and were exposed to Christian hymns. Ragtime was an influence that came later and is a faster blues played with the piano and someone singing which was usually played in bars called barrel houses.
King better known as B. B. King or “The King of Blues,” was born in Itta Bena, MS, and is widely considered to be one of the most respected blues musicians of all time. He was also ranked third on the Rolling Stone’s list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of all time. His style combines gospel and the blues. His music including innovative guitar playing, became a model for many blues performers in the 1960’s. B.B King played at least 15,000 performances in over 52 years of entertaining. In 2002 he signed on as an official supporter of Little Kids Rock, a nonprofit organization that provides free musical instruments and lessons to children in the public
King was born in Atlanta, Georgia January 15, 1929. WHile growing up the laws were unfair. White and black were not allowed to be at the
Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in 1929 in Georgia (elibrary). King grew up during a violitale period for African Americans and their fight for equal rights. Unfortunately for King, his skin was brown and white people didn’t like brown people.