B.B. King

Riley B. King aka B. B. King (born September 16 1925) is a well known American blues guitarist and songwriter. According to Rolling Stone magazine, he is the greatest living guitarist, and ranked 3rd among greatest gutarists of all

Riley B. King aka B. B. King (born September 16 1925) is a well known American blues guitarist and songwriter. According to Rolling Stone magazine, he is the greatest living guitarist, and ranked 3rd among greatest gutarists of all time (behind late Jimi Hendrix and Duane Allman). One of King's trademarks is naming his guitars "Lucille", a tradition that began in the 1950s.

Born in Itta Bena, Mississippi, King spent much of his childhood sharing time living with his mother and his grandmother and working as a sharecropper. King has said he was paid 35 cents for each 100 pounds (45 kg) of cotton he picked before discovering his other talents. At an early age, King developed a love for blues guitarists like T-Bone Walker and Lonnie Johnson and jazz artists like Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt. Soon King was cultivating his own musical skills singing Gospel music in church.