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B.B. King
Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer, electric guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. King introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending and shimmering vibrato that influenced many later electric blues guitarists.
Eddie King (musician)
Eddie King (April 21, 1938 – March 14, 2012) was an American Chicago blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. "Living Blues" magazine stated that "King is a potent singer and player with a raw, gospel-tinged voice and an aggressive, thick-toned guitar sound". He was noted as creating a "straightforward style, after Freddie King and Little Milton".
Tony King (actor)
Tony Emanuel King (born 6 May 1947) is an American actor, political activist, and retired football player. A player for the Buffalo Bills for only one season in 1967, King subsequently became an actor and appeared in numerous exploitation and B movies, including several produced in Italy. In the 1980s, he became a member of the Nation of Islam, abandoning his “slave name” and becoming Malik Farrakhan. He currently serves as the head of security for the hip-hop group Public Enemy. A documentary about King's life, "The Long Road to the Hall of Fame", is currently being produced by .
Bill King (Royal Navy officer)
Commander William Donald Aelian "Bill" King, DSO & Bar, DSC (23 June 1910 – 21 September 2012) was a British naval officer, yachtsman and author. He was the oldest participant in the first solo non-stop, around-the-world yacht race, the "Sunday Times" Golden Globe Race, the only person to command a British submarine on both the first and last days of World War II.
Brought up by his mother and grandmother, King went to the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth. He was first assigned to the battleship , and later became commanding officer of the submarine . He served on three separate vessels in World War II, and was promoted to commander and awarded seven medals during the war. King not only survived World War II, but succeeded in a singlehanded circumnavigation in 1973 on his third attempt. During the latter journey, he managed to reach port despite a collision with a large sea creature southwest of Australia.
Rob King
Rob King (born 1970 in Los Angeles) has (along with Paul Romero) composed the music for the Heroes of Might and Magic and the Might and Magic series. He also created music and character sound effects for Everquest: Gates of Discord for Sony Online. In the early 2000s (decade), he was a member of the alternative rock band Red Delicious.
Don King (musician)
Donald Alan "Don" King (born May 4, 1954, in Fremont, Nebraska) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and trumpeter. In the 1970s and 1980s, he recorded a total of four major label albums, and charted more than fifteen hit singles on the "Billboard" country music charts.
Alan King (guitarist)
Alan "Bam" King (born Alan King, 18 September 1945, Muswell Hill, North London) is an English guitarist and singer, best known for his time with the British 60s pop group The Action and the 70s rock band Ace.
Bruce King (American football)
Bruce King (born January 7, 1963) is a former American football fullback in the National Football League. He split his 3-year career with the Kansas City Chiefs and the Buffalo Bills. He played college football at Purdue. During his career, King was the only rookie fullback/running back to start on opening day of the 1985 season.
The Burger King
After Miami-based advertising firm Crispin Porter + Bogusky (CP+B) took over advertising of Burger King on January 27, 2003, they began using a new caricatured iteration of the Burger King character who was simply called "the King". During production, an employee at CP+B found a 1970s'-era oversized Burger King head for sale on eBay which was originally used as inspiration for brainstorming; it was eventually decided to restore the head and use it in a campaign. The King appeared in commercials for Burger King starting in 2004. In this incarnation, the King is an unnamed actor who wears an oversized grinning mask that resembles the 1970s version of the Burger King and who often appears in various unexpected places such as in bed with people or behind doors and walls, only to offer them Burger King food. Employing the advertising technique called viral marketing, CP+B's ads generated significant word of mouth for its new use of what various trade publications and Internet articles labeled "the Creepy King" persona, an appellation that BK has come to favor and CP+B uses in its ads.
Ben E. King
King was born Benjamin Earl Nelson on September 28, 1938, in Henderson, North Carolina, and moved to Harlem, New York, at the age of nine in 1947. King began singing in church choirs, and in high school formed the Four B’s, a doo-wop group that occasionally performed at the Apollo.
Bernard King (disambiguation)
Bernard King (born 1956) is an American basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association from 1977 to 1993.
John &quot;Jabo&quot; Starks
With B.B. King
Bun B
Bernard Freeman (born March 19, 1973), is an American rapper better known by his stage name Bun B. He is best known as one half of the southern rap duo UGK (UnderGround Kingz), a group he formed in 1987 alongside Pimp C. Aside from his work with UGK, Bun B has released four solo albums, including 2010's Trill OG, which received the rare 5 mic rating from The Source.
Bilbo Baggins
According to Appendix C of "The Lord of the Rings", Bilbo was born to Bungo Baggins and Belladonna Took in , or S.R. 1290. "The Lord of the Rings" gives the date of Bilbo's birthday as 22 September, but the actual date in the Shire calendar was Halimath 22; Tolkien tells us in Appendix D that he "used our modern names" for the months "to avoid confusion, while the seasonal implications of our names are more or less the same", so that Halimath is translated as September, but that "the Shire dates were actually in advance of ours by some ten days, and our New Year's Day corresponded more or less to the Shire January 9".
Brian Temba
Brian Temba (born Brian Themba Makiwane) is a South African performer, singer, songwriter and producer,he was born on 11 December 1981 in the Eastern Cape province.He speaks four languages.Known for his recent role as Ranthumeng Mokoena in the South African soap opera Muvhango and his role as Simba in the West End musical "The Lion King".
Brian's father and brother both died then he left with his sister and his mother.Brian Temba (born Brian Themba Makiwane) is a South African born performer, singer, songwriter and producer, known for his recent role as Ranthumeng Mokoena in the South African soap opera Muvhango and his role as Simba in the West End musical "The Lion King".
King T
Roger McBride was born in Compton, California on December 14, 1968 and has attended high school. He had been around the Los Angeles Hip hop scene for many years alongside Ice-T and Kid Frost and acted as a pioneer for the genre. In 1988, he made his debut with Act a Fool, which is considered to be a classic among West Coast fans.
King (horse)
King was born June 25, 1932, the offspring of Zantanon and Jabalina. Originally named Buttons by his breeder, he was renamed King when he was registered with the AQHA as number 234. He was a bay stallion, bred by Manuel Benavides Volpe of Laredo, Texas and owned at the time of registration by Jess L. Hankins of Rocksprings, Texas. The AQHA gave his sire as Zantanon by Little Joe by Traveler and his dam as Jabalina by Strait Horse by Yellow Jacket by Little Rondo (Bunton Horse). His second dam was a mare by Traveler, making him linebred to Traveler.
Little Freddie King
Little Freddie King (born Fread Eugene Martin, July 19, 1940) is an American Delta blues guitarist. His style is based on that of Freddie King, but his approach to country blues is original.
Stephen King
King was born September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Edwin King, was a merchant seaman. Donald was born under the surname Pollock, but as an adult, used the surname King. King's mother was Nellie Ruth (née Pillsbury).
Mabel King
Mabel Elizabeth King (née Washington; December 25, 1932 – November 9, 1999) was an American film, stage, and television actress, and singer. She is best known for her role as Mabel "Mama" Thomas on the ABC sitcom "What's Happening!!" from its premiere in 1976 until the end of its second season in 1978. King's next most remembered role is that of Evillene the Witch, a role she originated in the stage musical "The Wiz" and reprised in Sidney Lumet's 1978 film adaptation. She made recordings with Rama Records and Amy Records.
Jeff King (author)
Jeff King (born February 1, 1969 in Heidelberg, Germany) is an American author, video game developer and businessman who is best known for his book "The Home Distiller's Workbook: Your Guide to Making Moonshine, Whisky, Vodka, Rum and So Much More!". He is also a video game developer and is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Blue Shift Inc. as well as the owner and lead instructor at Semper Alacer, Firearms & Safety Training. Jeff launched Red Beard Studios in 2016 consolidating his multimedia endeavors. (Books, Websites and YouTube channel)
King Ernest Baker
"King" Ernest Baker (May 30, 1939 – March 5, 2000) was an American blues and soul singer. He recorded "I Feel Alright" and "That's When I Woke Up." Baker was born in Natchez, Mississippi, and died in a car crash in 2000, just after finishing recording an album.
Bernard King
Bernard King (born December 4, 1956) is an American retired professional basketball player at the small forward position in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played 14 seasons with the New Jersey Nets, Utah Jazz, Golden State Warriors, New York Knicks and Washington Bullets. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on September 8, 2013. His younger brother, Albert, also played in the NBA during his career.
Billie Jean King
Singles
Murder of Larry King
Lawrence Fobes King was born on January 13, 1993Pringle, Paul, Salliant, Catherine (March 8, 2008). "A deadly clash of emotions before Oxnard shooting." "Los Angeles Times" pg. A1. at the Ventura County Medical Center in Ventura, California. King was adopted at age two by Gregory and Dawn King. His biological father had abandoned his wife, and his mother was a drug addict who failed to care for her son properly.
Bruce King
Bruce King (April 6, 1924 – November 13, 2009) was an American businessman and politician who served three non-consecutive four-year terms as the governor of New Mexico. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the longest-serving governor in New Mexico history, with 12 years of service.
Bill King
King is one of only two people ever awarded both a World Series ring and a Super Bowl ring. The other was Bob Sheppard, the long-time stadium voice of the New York Football Giants and New York Yankees, and another man famously secretive about his age.
Emily King
Born in New York City in 1985, King grew up in a small apartment on the Lower East Side. Her parents, Marion Cowings and Kim Kalesti, were a singing duo who performed and traveled regularly bringing her and her older brother along with them. At age 16, King left high school after earning her GED to pursue her music career. She began playing shows in restaurants and venues around New York City including CBGB and The Bitter End.
Bob King (editor)
Robert Boyd King was born in Iowa City, Iowa on 17 October 1949. He graduated from the University of Iowa in 1972.
Gayle King
Gayle King (born December 28, 1954) is an American television personality, journalist, and author, who is co-anchor of the CBS News morning show "CBS This Morning," a position she has held since its debut in 2012. She is also an editor-at-large for "O, The Oprah Magazine".
Indianola, Mississippi
B.B. King grew up in Indianola as a child. He came to the blues festival named after him every year. King referenced the city with the title of his 1970 album "Indianola Mississippi Seeds". The B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center, a $14 million facility dedicated to King and the blues, opened in September 2008. Many street names are named after King and his music, including B.B. King Road, Lucille St. (named after his guitar), and Delta Blues St.
Martin Luther King Jr.
King was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, to the Reverend Martin Luther King Sr. and Alberta Williams King. King's given name at birth was Michael King, and his father was also born Michael King, but, after a period of gradual transition on the elder King's part, he changed both his and his son's names in 1934. The senior King was inspired during a trip to Germany for that year's meeting of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA). While visiting sites associated with reformation leader, Martin Luther, attendees also witnessed the rise of Nazism. The BWA conference issued a resolution condemning anti-Semitism, and the senior King gained deepened appreciation for the power of Luther's protest. The elder King would later state that "Michael" was a mistake by the attending physician to his son's birth, and the younger King's birth certificate was altered to read "Martin Luther King Jr." in 1957. King's parents were both African-American, and he also had Irish ancestry through his paternal great-grandfather.
King was a middle child, between older sister Christine King Farris and younger brother A.D. King. King sang with his church choir at the 1939 Atlanta premiere of the movie "Gone with the Wind", and he enjoyed singing and music. His mother was an accomplished organist and choir leader who took him to various churches to sing, and he received attention for singing "I Want to Be More and More Like Jesus". King later became a member of the junior choir in his church.
Brett King
A few years after his discharge from the army, King began acting in feature films in Hollywood, where he was cast in no fewer than 13 films between 1949 and 1954. His first role was as the character Lieutenant Teiss in the World War II film "Battleground", starring Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, and future U.S. Senator George Murphy. The next year he played Al 'Kid' Beaumont in "State Penitentiary", a drama starring Warner Baxter as a former aircraft manufacturer wrongfully accused and imprisoned for embezzling $400,000. King was then cast in 1951 as First Lieutenant Ernie Stark in the John Wayne and Robert Ryan film "Flying Leathernecks," which focuses on the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942. That same year he played Milo Pagano in the war film "A Yank in Korea", starring Lon McCallister. In 1954 he was also cast in the role of Joe Branch, reputed son of Jesse James, for the 3D film "Jesse James vs. the Daltons". Following his performance in that film, King refocused his acting career, concentrating almost exclusively on available roles on the rapidly expanding medium of television.
B.B. King
In 1949, King began recording songs under contract with Los Angeles-based RPM Records. Many of King's early recordings were produced by Sam Phillips, who later founded Sun Records. Before his RPM contract, King had debuted on Bullet Records by issuing the single, "Miss Martha King" (1949), which did not chart well. "My very first recordings [in 1949] were for a company out of Nashville called Bullet, the Bullet Record Transcription company," King recalled. "I had horns that very first session. I had Phineas Newborn on piano; his father played drums, and his brother, Calvin, played guitar with me. I had Tuff Green on bass, Ben Branch on tenor sax, his brother, Thomas, on trumpet, and a lady trombone player. The Newborn family were the house band at the famous Plantation Inn in West Memphis."
Albert King
Albert Nelson (April 25, 1923 – December 21, 1992), known by his stage name Albert King, was an American blues guitarist and singer whose playing influenced many other blues guitarists. He is perhaps best known for the popular and influential album "Born Under a Bad Sign" (1967) and its title track.
B.B. King
Riley B. King was born on September 16, 1925, on the Berclair cotton plantation near the town of Itta Bena, Mississippi, the son of sharecroppers Albert and Nora Ella King. He considered the nearby city of Indianola, Mississippi to be his home. When King was four years old, his mother left his father for another man, so he was raised by his maternal grandmother, Elnora Farr, in Kilmichael, Mississippi.
Big King
The King Supreme debuted with an advertising campaign created by the McCaffery Ratner Gottlieb & Lane agency and commercials produced by Aspect Ratio which featured blues legend B.B. King. The ads pushed the company's lunch and dinner periods as the best time to have the sandwich and had King doing a voice over in which he alternately talked or sang about the sandwiches. The advertisements featured 15- and 30-second television spots in which King is shown sitting on a crescent moon, playing his guitar Lucille while speaking about the products and singing the company's slogan. The 30-second ads were for both the King Supreme and the company's other copycat product, the Egg McMuffin clone called the Egg'Wich Muffin sandwich, while the 15-second ads were for each product individually. On the radio side, 30- and 60-second spots had King discussing the new sandwiches and singing their praise. The tag line for the ads was "BK and BB let you have it your way," a variation on the company's motto "Have it your way."
B.B. King
In 1991, Beale Street developer John Elkington recruited B.B. King to Memphis to open the original B.B. King's Blues Club, and in 1994, a second club was launched at Universal Citywalk in Los Angeles. A third club in New York City's Times Square opened in June 2000 but closed on April 29, 2018. Management is currently in the process of finding a new location in New York City. Two more clubs opened, at Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut in January 2002, and in Nashville in 2003. Another club opened in Orlando in 2007. A club in West Palm Beach opened in the fall of 2009 and an additional one, based in the Mirage Hotel, Las Vegas, opened in the winter of 2009.
Bradley King
Bradley King ( – August 24, 1977) was the pen name of Josephine McLaughlin, born in Chicago on July 8, 1894. She was a successful screenwriter who wrote 56 scripts for films between 1920 and 1947. All but one of her 40 silent films are lost, but most of her 20 or so sound films still exist.
Bobby Tench
Tench recorded with the blues rock guitarist Freddie King and record producer Mike Vernon. He is credited on two albums by King, "Burglar" (1974) and "Larger than life" (1975) King died of a heart attack on 29 December 1976 aged 42 and the compilation album "Freddie King 1934-1976" was released several months later, featuring tracks Tench had contributed to on Burglar.
Tom King (comics)
Tom King is an American author, comic book writer, and ex-CIA officer. He is best known for writing "The Vision" for Marvel Comics, and "The Sheriff of Babylon" for the DC Comics imprint Vertigo, his 2012 superhero novel "A Once Crowded Sky", and the "Rebirth"-era "Batman" for DC Comics.
John King, Baron King of Wartnaby
John Leonard King, Baron King of Wartnaby (29 August 1917 – 12 July 2005) was a British businessman, who was noted for leading British Airways from an inefficient, nationalised company to one of the most successful airlines of recent times. This success was a flagship of Margaret Thatcher's privatisation programme. He was also directly involved with the "dirty tricks" campaign waged by British Airways, against Virgin Atlantic.
Brett King
Brett King (born Bertell W. King, Jr.; December 29, 1920 — January 14, 1999) was an American actor who performed in films and on television between 1949 and 1967.
Dolly King
William "Dolly" King (November 15, 1916 – January 29, 1969) was an American professional basketball player. He was one of a handful of African Americans to play in the National Basketball League (NBL), the predecessor of the NBA.
Reg King
Reg King (5 February 1945, Paddington, West London – 8 October 2010, Belvedere, Kent) was an English singer and songwriter, most famous for being the solo and lead singer with The Boys and The Action. He died of cancer, aged 65, in October 2010.
Bianca King
Bianca Charlotte King (born 18 March 1985) is a German-born Filipina actress, model, music video director, and host. She is best known for playing the role as Noemi Manansala in the thriller drama series "Sinner or Saint" (2011), as Aviona in the hit "fantaserye" "Mulawin" (2004), as well as her first lead prime time soap, "Luna Blanca" (2012), where in she played the title role of black-skinned Luna.
Saunders King
Saunders Samuel King (March 13, 1909 – August 31, 2000) was an American R&B and blues guitarist and singer.
The Burger King
In 1976, Kurger Bing was replaced by the "Marvelous Magical Burger King" which was a red-bearded and Tudor-era king played by Dick Gjonola, who ruled the Burger King Kingdom and performed magic tricks that were mostly sleight-of-hand but sometimes relied on camera tricks or involved his "Magic Ring." The King was accompanied by usually two or more children and notable characters such as "Sir Shake-a-Lot" (a knight that has a craving for milkshakes), the "Burger Thing" (a W.C. Fields-esque hamburger portrait), "The Duke of Doubt" who often doubted the King's abilities and the robotic "Wizard of Fries". This campaign paralleled McDonald's McDonaldland children's commercials, which featured "Ronald McDonald", "The Hamburglar" and "Mayor McCheese" among other characters and mascots. The Burger King Kingdom advertising campaign was discontinued by the late 1980s in favor of the BK Kids Club Gang ads.
Bernard King (basketball, born 1981)
Victor Bernard King, Jr. (born July 24, 1981) is an American professional basketball player for UJAP Quimper 29 of the LNB Pro B. He played college basketball for Texas A&M University.
Freddie King
Freddie King (September 3, 1934 – December 28, 1976) was an American blues guitarist and singer. He has been described as one of the "Three Kings" of electric blues guitar, along with Albert King and B.B. King. He was an influential guitarist with hits for Federal Records in the early 1960s. His soulful and powerful voice and distinctive guitar style inspired countless musicians, particularly guitarists (Eric Clapton is a notable example). He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.
Justin King (guitarist)
Inspired by Real World Studios, King returned to the US and began construction on his own studio "Blackberry Hill". The studio took about two years to complete during which time King toured the country as a solo guitarist opening for James Taylor, BB King, Diana Krall, North Mississippi All-Stars, Al Green and others. Just after building Blackberry Hill King recorded another instrumental record, "I-XII", with James West, renowned bassist Michael Manring and European guitarist Carlos Vamos. Shortly after that King started a band with James West (later replaced by Nadir Jeevanjee), Troy Sicotte (later replaced by Drew Dresman), and Ehren Ebbage (later replaced by Chris Plank). The band toured the country for about one year before being signed to a major label record deal with Epic Records in 2006.
Elle King
In 1999, she debuted as an actress in her father's film "". In 2005, at age 16, she started gigging around New York City, using a fake ID to gain entry to the local nightclubs. King immersed herself in the local songwriting scene and honed her performance skills by busking around town. King was then signed by newly appointed RCA Chairman Peter Edge. Her debut single "Good To Be A Man", was released on March 13, 2012, as a digital download and also as a 7" vinyl single. On June 12, 2012, the four-song "The Elle King EP" was released on RCA. The EP was recorded in New York and was produced by Andy Baldwin and Chris DeStefano, with King herself producing a track. The EP's lead track, "Playing for Keeps", was chosen as the theme song for VH1's "Mob Wives Chicago" series that premiered on June 10, 2012, on VH1.
Nelson King
Nelson King (August 7, 1914 – March 16, 1974) was an American radio disc jockey (DJ) with a nationwide following. Credited by many historians as among the most influential country music DJs in the post-World War II era, the "King of the country deejays" was posthumously inducted into the Country Music DJ Hall of Fame in 1975.
King Girado
Filbert Barinos Girado, Jr. (born April 14, 1979), better known by his stage name King, is a Filipino singer, musician, model and actor. He graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology from Far Eastern University. He is Popular for his hit songs Maybe, Bat 'di Mo Pagbigyan and Will You wait for Me from his albums Solo and The reason I exist under Star Records.
Reggie King
Reginald Biddings "Reggie" King (born February 14, 1957) is a retired American professional basketball player. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, he was a 6'6" and 225 lb forward and played college basketball at the University of Alabama. He had a career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1979 to 1985. King's nickname in college was "the Mule."
Brad King (politician)
King was born on February 12, 1956. He is married to his wife Tami. He grew up in Price, Utah, where he currently resides.
Billie Jean King
Billie Jean King ("née" Moffitt; born November 22, 1943) is an American former World No. 1 professional tennis player. King won 39 Grand Slam titles: 12 in singles, 16 in women's doubles, and 11 in mixed doubles. She won the singles title at the inaugural WTA Tour Championships. She often represented the United States in the Federation Cup and the Wightman Cup. She was a member of the victorious United States team in seven Federation Cups and nine Wightman Cups. For three years, she was the United States' captain in the Federation Cup.
Guy King
Guy King (born October 3, 1977) is an Israeli born blues and jazz guitarist and singer who now lives in Chicago, Illinois, United States. King began singing when he was four years old living in Israel. King was exposed bossa nova and salsa as a child and it made an impression on him. By the age of seven, King was playing the clarinet, and within three years he became a part of a conservatory orchestra, a large big band. After playing clarinet for a few years, King finally picked up the guitar at the age of 13. Guy King's style has been influenced by many jazz, soul and blues musicians which include B.B. King, Wes Montgomery, Ray Charles, Albert King, Percy Mayfield, and Johnny "Guitar" Watson,
Guy King was born and raised in Israel. King toured the United States with an Israeli singing group when he was 16. After this, King was sure he wanted to move to the United States. However, King had to serve three years of compulsory military service in Israel. Just Twelve days after King was discharged from the military in 1999 (age 21), King took his guitar and one suitcase and he moved to Memphis, Tennessee. King said he moved to Memphis, "...because B.B. King and Albert King started there." After a short time in Memphis, King then moved to New Orleans before settling in Chicago.
Guy King is married to Sarah Fringero and has one daughter named Rachel.
When King arrived in the United States, he spent a short time in Memphis and New Orleans before settling in Chicago. King spent six years playing in Chicago blues singer Willie Kent’s band, and became Kent's bandleader. After Kent died, King began his solo career.
Denis King
King was born in Hornchurch, Essex. He began his musical career at the age of six as a banjolele-playing singer at children's matinees and, by the age of thirteen, with his two older brothers, Mike and Tony, was a member of one of the most successful pop groups of the 1950s and 1960s, The King Brothers — considered by many to be Britain’s first boy band. Denis played the piano, Mike the guitar, Tony the double bass.
Earl King
Earl Silas Johnson IV (February 7, 1934 – April 17, 2003), known as Earl King, was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter, most active in blues music. A composer of blues standards such as "Come On" (covered by Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan) and "Big Chief" (recorded by Professor Longhair), he was an important figure in New Orleans R&B.
John King Jr.
John B. King Jr. was born in 1975 in Flatlands, Brooklyn, to John B. King Sr., a retired public school administrator and teacher, and Adalinda King, a school guidance counselor. King Sr. had been Brooklyn's first black principal and later became New York City's executive deputy superintendent of schools. King Jr.'s parents met in graduate school, where his father was his mother's instructor. She died of a heart attack when King was eight years old. His father developed Alzheimer's and later died when King was 12. King moved to Long Island to live with his 24-year-old half brother. King later attended Phillips Andover but rebelled against its rules and was expelled in his junior year. He moved in with his uncle in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, where he applied and was accepted to Harvard University.
After receiving a Bachelor of Arts in government at Harvard, King taught social studies and received his master's at Teachers College, Columbia University. He taught for three years, including two years at a Boston charter school. King was among the founders of Roxbury Preparatory Charter School, where he served as co-director for five years and developed its curriculum and rules, such as no talking in the hallways between classes. Under King's leadership, Roxbury Prep's students attained the highest state exam scores of any urban middle school in Massachusetts, closed the racial achievement gap, and outperformed students from not only the Boston district schools but also the city's affluent suburbs. King then joined as a managing director for Uncommon Schools, an urban, public charter school organization that operates some of the highest performing urban public schools in New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. In 2013 Uncommon Schools won the Broad Prize for top charter network.
Black Angel Blues
In 1956, B.B. King recorded "Sweet Little Angel" (RPM Records 468). According to King, "I got the idea for 'Sweet Little Angel' from Robert Nighthawk's 'Sweet Black Angel', though I later discovered that the song had been recorded by someone before Nighthawk. At the time 'black' was not a popular word, as it is now. Instead of using the old title, I changed it to 'Sweet Little Angel'—and that was a pretty big record for me". King's version, which included a horn section, was a stylistic shift for the song and it became a hit, reaching number eight on the Billboard R&B chart. In 1957, he re-recorded "Sweet Little Angel" for his first album "Singin' the Blues". Both versions prominently feature B.B. King's guitar work, with his note-bends "sounding almost like a lap steel in places."
Elizabeth O. King
Elizabeth Osborne King (October 12, 1912April 8, 1966) was an internationally known American microbiologist who discovered and described bacteria of medical importance at the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from the late 1940s through the early 1960s. The genera "Kingella" and "Elizabethkingia" and the species "Kingella kingae" are named to honor her for her pioneering work.
Burger King (Alberta)
Burger King was a fast food restaurant chain in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Also known as Burger King Drive-Inn, it was founded by former Imperial Oil executives William R. Jarvis (1926-21 July 2014)
BB Queen
BB Queen is the second release by Philadelphia-based rapper Bahamadia, released on July 25, 2000 through Good Vibe Recordings. It was her first release in four years, since her debut album, "Kollage", was released in 1996. The album peaked at number 25 on the "Billboard" Independent Albums Chart.
King (R&amp;B group)
King (stylized as KING) is an American R&B vocal girl group based in Los Angeles, California, featuring identical twin sisters Amber and Paris Strother and their close friend Anita Bias. The Strother sisters are the nieces of the Minneapolis, Minnesota-based electric bluesman, Percy Strother, who died in 2005 and are originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota; Bias was born and raised in Los Angeles.
Berclair, Mississippi
Blues guitar player B.B. King was born just outside Berclair in 1925, and lived there until the age of four when he went to live with his maternal grandmother. This event is commemorated by a Mississippi Blues Trail marker in Berclair.
King Kamali
Shahriar Kamali, known as King Kamali, (born March 29, 1972 in Masjed soleyman), is a retired IFBB professional bodybuilder.
Stephen D. King
Stephen Daryl King (born November 1963) is a British economist. He is senior economic adviser at HSBC Holdings, where he was chief economist from 1998 to July 2015. King also works as a journalist and consultant, and is a specialist adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Committee.
B.B. King's Bluesville
The channel launched on XM as Bluesville in 2001; King's name was officially added on July 14, 2008. At the time it had around 4 million listeners.
Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. B.B. King
Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. B.B. King is a box set compilation album by B. B. King. It traces King's career from his first singles for Bullet Records in 1949 to material his last recorded album in 2008. Crowdfunded by Pledge Music in 2012, it was available in a full ten-disc box exclusive through Amazon.com, and a four-disc "highlights" box available everywhere else. People who pledged money also got a digital copy of the out-of-print 1975 album "Lucille Talks Back." Both versions of the box are physically out of print; the four disc edition is bundled along with "Lucille Talks Back" digitally, although this version removes King's first single.
1. Miss Martha King (1949 USA 78" on Bullet 309, A)
Robbie King (musician)
Robbie King (born Robert Glenn King on May 27, 1947, died October 17, 2003) was a Canadian musician, associated with many national and international acts. He was most associated with his playing of the Hammond organ.
Kirby Grant
Kirby Grant (November 24, 1911 – October 30, 1985), born Kirby Grant Hoon Jr., was a long-time B movie and television actor, mostly remembered for having played the title role in the Western-themed adventure television series "Sky King". Between 1949 and 1954, Grant played the title role in the series of ten Corporal Rod Webb films.
Morgan King
Singles
Burger King advertising
The Burger King is a character created as the advertising mascot for the company that has been used in numerous television commercials and advertising programs. The character has undergone several iterations over the course of its company's history. The first iteration of the King was part of a Burger King sign at the first store in Miami, Florida in 1955. Later signs had the King shown sitting on a "burger throne" as well as atop the BK sign while holding a beverage. In the early 1970s Burger King started using a small, animated version of the King called Kurger Bing in its children's advertising where the animated Burger King was voiced by Allen Swift. By the late 70s, the original animated King was replaced by the "Marvelous Magical Burger King", a red-bearded, Tudor-era king who ruled the Burger King Kingdom and performed magic tricks that were mostly sleight-of-hand, but sometimes relied on camera tricks or involved his "Magic Ring" which could summon copious amounts of food. The children's ads featuring the King were phased out by the late 1980s in favor of the BK Kids Club Gang and other later programs.
Billy King (basketball)
Billy Matthew King (born January 23, 1966) is the former general manager of the Brooklyn Nets and Philadelphia 76ers professional basketball teams, as well as former team president of the Philadelphia 76ers. As GM of the Nets, King's legacy in the NBA was hurt by a series of oft-criticized trades that were deemed among the "worst in league history".
Elle King
Tanner Elle Schneider (born July 3, 1989), known professionally as Elle King, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Her musical style encompasses country, soul, rock and blues. In 2012, King released her debut EP, "The Elle King EP", on RCA. The EP track "Playing for Keeps" is the theme song for VH1's "Mob Wives Chicago" series. She released her debut album, "Love Stuff" on February 17, 2015. The album produced the US top 10 single "Ex's & Oh's", which earned her two Grammy Award nominations. King has also toured with acts such as Of Monsters and Men, Train, James Bay, The Dixie Chicks, and Michael Kiwanuka. She is the daughter of actor and comedian Rob Schneider and former model London King. She currently resides in Los Angeles.
Albert King (basketball)
Albert King (born December 17, 1959) is a retired American professional basketball player. King played at Fort Hamilton High School in Brooklyn and is regarded as one of the nation's greatest high school players of all time. He was rated the top prep player in the nation over Magic Johnson and Gene Banks during his senior year. A guard-forward from the University of Maryland, King was selected by the New Jersey Nets in the first round (10th overall) of the 1981 NBA draft. King played in nine NBA seasons for four teams.
Louis Eugene King
Early Life
Eddie King (musician)
He relocated to Chicago in 1954, and his diminutive stature and the influence of B.B. King led to his being referred to as Little Eddie King. Given a break by Little Mack Simmons, he first recorded under the tutelage of Willie Dixon and, in 1960, played on several tracks recorded by Sonny Boy Williamson II. He also recorded with Detroit Junior. Also in 1960, King recorded a single, "Shakin' Inside" backed with "Love You Baby", released by J.O.B. Records. He then played guitar backing Koko Taylor, a role he undertook for two decades. He formed Eddie King & the Kingsmen in 1969. King moved to Peoria, Illinois, in the early 1980s. After the early 1990s, his backing ensemble was known as the Swamp Bees, and his music incorporated Chicago blues, country blues, blues shouter, and soul music.
Jacquire King
Jacquire King (born January 11, 1967) is an American record producer, engineer and mixer. King has worked with artists including Kings of Leon, Tom Waits, James Bay, Kaleo, Modest Mouse, You Me At Six, Buddy Guy, Norah Jones, Of Monsters and Men, Josh Ritter, Cold War Kids, Punch Brothers, City and Colour, Moon Taxi, Robert Ellis, Amber Rubarth, Dawes and Graham Cochrane. His work has received more than 30 Grammy Award nominations to date.
H. B. Warner
Henry Byron Warner (born Henry Byron Lickfold, 26 October 1876 – 21 December 1958) was an English film and theatre actor. He was popular during the silent era and played Jesus Christ in "The King of Kings". In later years, he successfully transitioned into supporting roles and appeared in numerous films directed by Frank Capra. Warner's most notable role to modern audiences is "Mr. Gower" in the perennially shown film "It's a Wonderful Life", directed by Capra. He also had a cameo in "Sunset Boulevard", directed by Billy Wilder.
William King (Canadian politician)
William 'Bill' King (born September 15, 1930) is a former British Columbia politician from Revelstoke. King was a member of Dave Barrett's 1972 BC NDP provincial government, serving in the post of Minister of Labour.
Billy King (vaudeville)
He was born in Whistler, Alabama, but left home when young. He formed his own company, "King and Bush, Wide-Mouth Minstrels", before joining the Georgia Minstrels. By around 1902 he was established as one of the leading comedians in the travelling troupe. He moved into vaudeville in 1911, and established his own company, writing prolifically and touring between bases in Atlanta, Kansas City, Savannah and elsewhere. The company included comedian Billy Higgins. In 1915, he established a permanent base for his company at the Grand Theater in Chicago.
Between 1916 and 1923, he wrote, staged and starred in a succession of shows at the theater, often changing shows every week. He was responsible for introducing girls clowning at the end of chorus lines, an innovation later developed by Josephine Baker, and his shows sometimes included satire on race issues, with Lester Walton likening one of his shows to an NAACP protest meeting. Some of his shows went on tour, to Harlem and other places on established vaudeville circuits, and he employed a large group of performers who included his protégé Gertrude Saunders, and Billy Higgins. King was also involved in running theatres in Louisville, Chattanooga, Atlanta and elsewhere.
Eddy King
Edward King (born October 9, 1964 in the Philippines (in 1970 his family settled in Chula Vista, California)) is an "Old School" former professional Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years were from 1977 to 1985.
King (miniseries)
King is a 1978 American television miniseries based on the life of Martin Luther King Jr., the American civil rights leader and 1964 Nobel laureate. It aired for three consecutive nights on NBC from February 12 through 14, 1978. The miniseries earned nine Emmy Award nominations, including nominations for actors Paul Winfield, Cicely Tyson and Ossie Davis. Several real-life figures from the Civil Rights Movement had minor roles in the production, including then-Atlanta mayor Maynard Jackson, King's sister Christine King Farris, his niece Alveda King, and his four children: Yolanda, Martin III, Dexter and Bernice. Donzaleigh Abernathy, Tony Bennett, Julian Bond and Ramsey Clark each portrayed themselves.Annazette Chase was considered to portray Coretta Scott King.
Brett King (businessman)
Brett King (born April 24, 1968 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian futurist, author, and co-founder and CEO of Moven, a New York-based mobile banking startup. He is regarded as an influencer in financial services globally, and his book "Augmented" was cited by China's President Xi Jinping as recommended reading on artificial intelligence.
B.B. King
King was born on a cotton plantation in Berclair, Mississippi, and later worked at a cotton gin in Indianola, Mississippi. He was attracted to music and the guitar in church, and began his career in juke joints and local radio. He later lived in Memphis, Tennessee, and Chicago, and toured the world extensively. King died at the age of 89 in Las Vegas, Nevada, on May 14, 2015.
Mike King (BMX rider)
Michael Allen King (born June 30, 1969 in Washington, D.C., U.S.) is an "Old School/Mid School" former professional Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years were from 1984 to 1998 and is also a former Mountain Bike (MTB) racer who prime competitive years in that discipline were 1993 to 2004.
B.B. King
"B.B. King: The Life of Riley", a feature documentary about King narrated by Morgan Freeman and directed by Jon Brewer, was released on October 15, 2012.
Benjamin Franklin King Jr.
King was born at St. Joseph, Michigan, March 17, 1857, and according to a short biography by Opie Read, as a child he was reputed a piano prodigy; in adult life he was by many deemed a failure for his lack of business instinct. But as "a poet, a gentle satirist and a humorist of the highest order, he achieved notability" in his short life for a series of newspaper published poems.
Brian Kay
Brian Christopher Kay (born 12 May 1944) is an English radio presenter, conductor and singer. He is well known as the bass in the King's Singers during the group's formative years from 1968 until 1982, and as such is to be heard on many of their 1970s LP recordings. He was also the voice of Papageno in the film "Amadeus" and the lowest frog in the Paul McCartney song "We All Stand Together" (The Frog's Chorus).
Jon Brewer
At the funeral of BB King in 2015, while Jon Brewer was filming, a number of previous band members of King expressed their frustration that BB King's life on the road had not been featured in B.B. King 'The Life of Riley'. Upon further introspection, Brewer realized that there had been such a great deal of BB King's life of 55 years on the road for over 300 days per year, something had to be done to complete the story, thus commenced the production of B.B. King 'On the Road' , where musicians from several statges of King's career sat on the BB King Tour Bus across America's Deep South, telling some amazing stories that could only happen ' On the Road' , including a bombing meant to Martin Luther King, a fatal bus accident also many hilarious incidents. Now sen on Hulu in America and Sky in UK, plus other broadcasters worldwide, Universal Music on DVD and Digital.
Cast King
Joseph D. "Cast" King (February 16, 1926 – December 13, 2007) was a country musician and songwriter from Old Sand Mountain, Alabama.
King released the album, "Saw Mill Man", in 2005. He was aged 79 at the time of recording.
A song from the album entitled "Outlaw" was included in the score of Gus Van Sant's 2007 film, "Paranoid Park".
"Saw Mill Man" drew comparisons to Johnny Cash's "American Recordings" series.
King's baritone voice and acoustic guitar have been praised as possessing a raw and affecting quality.
The narratives of the songs dealt with characteristic country themes such as poverty, broken relationships, and murderous outlaws.
Although his opportunity to record a full-length album came late in life, Cast King had previously recorded for Sun Records in 1955.
With his band, "The Country Drifters", he cut around a dozen songs at this time.
It was musician, Matt Downer, who located King and encouraged him to come out of a long musical retirement and record.
Downer also played electric guitar throughout "Saw Mill Man".
The record was met with favourable reviews from "Rolling Stone", "Arthur Magazine", "Mojo", and "No Depression" among other publications.
King was preparing a second collection of songs when it was discovered that he was suffering from cancer. He died at the age of 81 on December 13, 2007.
B.B. King
He worked at WDIA as a singer and disc jockey, where he was given the nickname "Beale Street Blues Boy", later shortened to "Blues Boy", and finally to "B.B." It was there that he first met T-Bone Walker. King said, "Once I'd heard him for the first time, I knew I'd have to have [an electric guitar] myself. 'Had' to have one, short of stealing!"
Lil B
Brandon Christopher McCartney (born August 17, 1989), professionally known as Lil B and as his alter ego The BasedGod, is an American rapper. Lil B has recorded both solo and with The Pack. His solo work spans several genres, including hip hop, new age, indie rock and choral music. He describes his work as "based", a term which denotes a lifestyle of positivity and tolerance. He is noted for his extensive use of social media to build an online following. He has released a variety of albums and mixtapes, including "Rain in England" (2010). He is from Berkeley, California.
Bernice King
Bernice Albertine King was born on March 28, 1963, in Atlanta, Georgia. The day after she was born, her father had to leave for Birmingham, Alabama, but he rushed back when it was time for Bernice and her mother, Coretta, to leave the hospital. He drove them home himself but, in what was all too typical with the work he was doing, had to leave them again within hours. Following her birth, Harry Belafonte realized the toll the Civil Rights Movement was taking on her mother's time and energy and offered to pay for a nurse to help Coretta with the Kings' four children. They accepted and hired a person that would help with the children for the next five or six years. Her father died a week after Bernice's fifth birthday.
D.King
Justin Busia (born November 27, 1989), also known as D.King or DK, is an American rapper, songwriter, and recording artist in the hip hop genre. The name "D.King" or "DK" is short for "Don and the King".
Brownie King
Bob "Brownie" King (January 31, 1934) is a retired NASCAR Grand National (now Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series) driver. He drove in both the 1959 Daytona 500 and the 1960 Daytona 500. Prior to the creation of the Daytona 500, he drove multiple times in the NASCAR sanctioned Grand National race at the Daytona Beach and Road Course.
B.B. King Museum
The B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center opened in Indianola Mississippi on September 13, 2008. The museum features a restored brick cotton gin building in which B.B. King worked in the 1940s. The museum also contains an extensive collection of artifacts owned by King and displays exhibits about his life and the lives of other musicians of the delta region and the culture where the blues arose. The museum commemorates the famous blues artist, B.B King, who was from the Mississippi Delta. The museum has multiple exhibits highlighting King's Delta Blue music. Exhibits include interactive exhibits, King memorabilia, and stories. The museum seeks to help preserve Delta Blues and its culture by promoting its importance.
Calep Emphrey Jr.
Calep H. Emphrey Jr. (May 1, 1949 – April 25, 2017) was an American blues drummer and bandleader, best known as a member of B.B. King's band.