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"Retiring? I only retire when I call the above", these are the words that the greatest blues, ie, BB King says of his long and successful career, which led him to be regarded as one of the most important live music, a legend, that on Sunday June 6th Regional Auditorium closed its tour of Spain.
He does this with all tickets sold.
And is that BB King is more than music, is part of the history of music.
Since Riley B King, now known worldwide as BB King, he began recording in the late forties, has released over fifty albums.
King was born on September 16, 1925 on a cotton plantation in Itta Bene, Mississippi in the U.S..
Since childhood, music has soul.
As a child, BB King developed the most recognizable styles of guitar.
In his youth, he played on street corners for pennies and sometimes presented in the surrounding towns.
Bound rate
In 1947, with his guitar and a few dollars in his pocket, headed north to Memphis, Tennessee, to pursue a career in music.
Memphis was, then, the city that were the most important musicians of the South who supported a competitive musical community where virtually all styles, black sound could be heard.
King was with his cousin Bukka White, one of the most renowned rural blues performers
The BB King first opportunity came in 1948 when he starred in the program of Sonny Boy Williamson KWEM station in West Memphis.
This led to key activities in the Sixteen Avenue Grill and, later, a call for ten minutes in the black station WDIA.
BB's spot, sponsored by Pepticon, a health tonic, became so popular that it was increased in duration and became the "Sepia Swing Club."
As her popularity grew, Riley B King needed a stage name to attract attention.
Beale Street Blues began as
Boy, later shortened to Blues Boy King and then the name was BB King.
The legend of Lucille
A mid-fifties, while BB King performing at a dance in Twist, Arkansas, two men started fighting and kerosene lamps placed to heat the place, starting the fire shed soon became general.
BB King came to protect the flames with everyone else, then he remembered that his beloved guitar for $ 30 had been inside so I ran back into the burning building to rescue, saving the life of a miracle.
When he learned that the fight had been for a woman named Lucille, he decided to baptize their tool with that name.
Since then, every loved BB King's Gibson guitars have been named "Lucille."
In the Blues, the best
Immediately after the launch of the first album of BB King, "Three O'Clock Blues", the artist began a tour across America.
In 1956, BB and his band performed an amazing tour of 342 dates.
From the circuit of clubs, small cafes, bars and dance halls campirano to rock palaces, symphony concert halls, universities, hotels and amphitheaters both the American Union, and the world.
BB King had become the most renowned blues musician of the last 50 years.
The borrowed elements of Blind Lemon Jefferson, T-Bone Walker and others to integrate its precise and complex style that mimics the human voice to bend the strings, and vibrato produced by his left hand.
Both elements have become indispensable components in the vocabulary of the guitar.
BB King has mixed traditional blues, jazz, Swing, Pop and Jump merging them into a unique sound, alternately using their own voice and his guitar, sings and plays but never simultaneously.
In the words of BB King: "When I sing, I play in my mind the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille."
His work and career have been recognized with numerous awards including nine Grammys (twenty nominations) and a star on the Walk of celebrities in Hollywood.
Also included in the Hall of Fame Blues and Rock & Roll, and many more awards.
The latest from BB
BB King album of 1998, "Blues On The Bayou" was considered a triumph by both fans and critics as the annual BB King Blues Festival features artists such as Blues Brothers, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Taj Mahal, Johnny Lang, Tower of Power, Indigenous, Bobby "Blue" Bland, The Robert Cray Band, Susan Tedeschi and Buddy Guy.
In 1999, BB King recorded "Let The Good Times Roll - The Music of Louis Jordan," a tribute to one of their musical heroes.
With more than 7 decades, BB King gives us his latest masterpiece and if this recording is an indication of this living legend, "Makin'Love Is Good For You" is a recipe that everyone should be implemented.
In 2000, he began the new millennium by joining forces with another living legend who recently announced his retirement from the stage, Eric Clapton, BB wanted to record with a delicious musical gem: "Riding With The King" and has sold several million albums.
The year 2001 was awarded two Grammy Awards, the first fruit of collaboration with Eric Clapton, won the award for Best Blues Album for "Riding With The King".
At the same time the same edition won the award for Best Pop Collaboration with: "You Is, Or Is You Is not (My Baby)" this time with Dr. John in February 2003 during Grammy Awards 45 °, were granted two, one for Best Pop Instrumental Performance and another for Best Traditional Blues Album.
BB King added to his 11 previous Grammys.
On 15 October this year, The Royal Swedish Academy of Music in Stockholm, gave THE POLAR MUSIC Prize for 2004 with the following citation: "The Polar Music Prize for 2004 has been awarded to American composer, singer and performer Riley B. King for his significant contribution to the Blues. The BB King's total dedication to its music, its rich history recording and touring relentlessly for more than half a century, have made him one of the most significant figures within the Blues. For their continuing efforts in raising awareness of the Blues around the World, as a proponent of his music, has been providing fundamental importance in the development of modern popular music. "
In 2005 BB King celebrates its 80 years of singing and playing, as usual.
The commemoration has been the excuse to convene again to their fans, some sessions on two continents that have generated a vigorous collection of duets, BB King & Friends-80 (Universal).
The figures range from friends that no one identified with blues, Gloria Estefan, Glenn Frey, Sheryl Crow, Daryl Hall, Roger Daltrey, Elton John, to the hard core decolaboradores preferred-Bobby Blue Bland and Eric Clapton, with whom he has recorded whole disks.
BB King returns, about to turn 83, to the roots of blues and the result is one of the best albums he has recorded in years.
Since "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" Blind Lemon Jefferson, who will be stuck in the neurons of the listener from the first listen, King is demonstrating that it is far from retirement and still pulling his guitar sounds wonderful.
Source: Mar de Músicas
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