LC control no. | n 82006577 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
LC classification | ML420.K473 Biography |
Personal name heading | King, B. B. |
Variant(s) | King, Riley B. King, Blues Boy |
See also | Corporate body: B.B. King Blues Band |
Associated country | United States |
Associated place | Itta Bena (Miss.) Indianola (Miss.) New York (N.Y.) |
Birth date | 1925-09-16 |
Death date | 2015-05-14 |
Place of birth | Berclair (Miss.) |
Place of death | Las Vegas (Nev.) |
Field of activity | Blues (Music) |
Profession or occupation | Blues musicians Singers Guitarists |
Found in | B.B. King live at the Regal. [Phonodisc] 1965. B.B. King anthology, c1992: title page (B.B. King) page 77 (nickname B.B. short for Blues Boy) AMG, Aug. 13, 2009 (B.B. King; b. Riley B. King, Sept. 16, 1925, Indianola, Miss.) Oxford music online, January 15, 2014: Grove music online (King, B. B. (Riley B.); born September 16, 1925, Itta Bena, MS; American blues singer and guitarist) Enc. of popular music, 4th ed. (King, B. B.; born Riley B. King, September 16, 1925, Indianola, Miss.) B.B. King WWW site, January 15, 2014 (B.B. King; Riley B. King; born September 16, 1925, on a plantation in Itta Bena, Mississippi, near Indianola) New York times (online), viewed May 15, 2015 (B.B. King; b. Riley B. King (the middle initial apparently did not stand for anything), Sept. 16, 1925, Berclair, Miss., a hamlet outside the small town of Itta Bena; d. Thursday [May 14, 2015], Las Vegas, aged 89; his world-weary voice and wailing guitar lifted him from the cotton fields of Mississippi to a global stage and the apex of American blues; B.B. stood for Blues Boy, a name he took with his first taste of fame in the 1940s) |
Associated language | eng |