B.B. King
Born | September 16, 1925 |
Hometown | Berclair, Mississippi, United States |
Net worth | $10 million |
Height | 5'10" (1.77m) |
Spouse | Sue Carol Hall (m 1958 - 1966) , Martha Lee Denton (m 1944 - 1952) |
Children | Shirley King , Claudette King , Patty King |
Parents | Albert King , Nora Ella Farr |
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Nov. 11—Ranked among one of today's top live performers, Joe Bonamassa will be returning to perform in the Permian Basin next week with a show titled The Guitar Event of the Year. The show will take place at 8 p.m. Nov. 16 at the Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center. The blues rock guitarist, singer and songwriter has been playing professionally since the age of 11 when he opened for B.B. King ...
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Photos: Tampa matriarch votes after celebrating 104th birthday with Florida senators
Familiar faces greeted Estella Vinson on Wednesday as she sat in the shade with her daughter before continuing her decades-long tradition of voting at the West Tampa Library. She requested B.B. King and a person manning a grill left the barbecue sizzling to play her favorite song on his phone speaker. “If we don’t straighten this country up, we’re going backwards,” Vinson’s daughter, Willie ...
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B.B. King’s Very First Guitar Could Fetch $800,000 at Auction Next Month
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Carlos Santana: 'Music is the water, I'm a hose, people are the flowers'
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5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Colin Hay of Men at Work
Name Colin Hay Best known for My recipe for Brussel sprouts. Current city Los Angeles. Really want to be In Melbourne. Haven’t been there since the pandemic. Craving driving down the Great Ocean Road, and swimming in those mighty waters. Excited about New album Now And The Evermore (March 18) and my current solo acoustic tour, across the … 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Colin Hay of Men at Work Read More » The post 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Colin Hay of Men at Work appeared first on SPIN.
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Whatever happened to Don King? Famed boxing promoter is back at 90 for a last bow in Miami | Opinion
He was one of the biggest stars in boxing history and one of sports’ greatest showmen. He was the celebrity-promoter who shaped the careers of Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson. He was as big as they get in his reign from the mid-1970s through the ‘90s.
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Rockland County girls golf championship: Maura Forde leads Clarkstown to a team title
Clarkstown was the runner-up a year ago, but placed three golfers in the top six this year to walk off with the win.
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RAMBLIN ROUND: B.B. King: The guitar man and his Lucille
May 22—When I recently asked John Moreland what kind of guitar he played during the first round of the Dancing Rabbit Music Festival in McAlester — a Nash, he told me — it got me too thinking about the ties between some musicians and their instruments of choice. I've noticed lots of guitarists have become especially tied to their instruments, Maybe musicians who play other instruments get just ...
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'3 Kings' will rock into Victory North courtesy of Eric Culberson and his love of the blues
Featuring the music of Albert King, B.B. King and Freddie King, the show was inspired by the “Blues Trilogy” tribute that Eric Culberson produced.
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