16 sett.1925 Itta Bena Mississippi U.S.A.
B.B. King, with a long career, is today the most important living bluesman. with its “Lucille”, a Gibson 335 guitar, he is become an icon of this genre until ’50.
In his childhood King worked where Blues is born that's to say in cotton fields receiving 35 cent for 45 Kg of harvested cotton before to discover his talent. with 300 shows per year all round the world , King, having passed 81 years still mantains his popularity gaining several prizes. Furthermore every year calls all the living greatest guitar player to make a session live in a particolar concert-contest taking his name.
B.B. King is a living piece of history, as the music that loves, the blues, the greatest artistical mouvement together with jazz. Root of avery genre, blues will live forever as today without passing of fashion, because unbound to business laws and B.B. King will go on to sing in world's roads.