When was B.B. King born?
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.
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.
Deborah King
Deborah King (born February 9, 1958) is an American author, speaker and attorney. She is the founder and CEO of the Deborah King Center and the author of 4 books including New York Times best-selling "Be Your Own Shaman".
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.
Jon Brewer
Following the worldwide success of B.B. King: The Life of Riley and his deepening alliances in America's South, Jon Brewer with his wife, writer and executive producer, Laura Royko chronicled in depth the development of blues music over 300 years of music as expressionism through slavery, abolition of slavery and the Civil Rights Movement, taking music right into early Rock N Roll in the 3 part Miniseries seen on Sky Television and Amazon Prime : Monochrome: Black, White and Blue.[9]
Following the positive reception of B.B. King: The Life of Riley,[10] Brewer was contacted by the Nat King Cole estate to create a documentary feature on the life of Nat King Cole.[11] In 2014 the documentary film Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark finished filming and edit. The film premiered in London on 13 May 2014, and has continued to be broadcast worldwide, winning the 2015 Screen Nation 'Diversity in Factual Programming Award' sponsored by BBC and ITV .
Benjamin Franklin King Jr.
Benjamin Franklin King Jr. (1857–1894) was an American humorist and poet whose work published under the names Ben King or the pseudonym Bow Hackley achieved notability in his lifetime and afterwards.
B.B. King Museum
In 2015, shortly after his death at age 89, King was buried at the museum and center in a planned memorial garden.
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.
Al King
King was born in Monroe, Louisiana. After moving to Los Angeles he recorded for the Shirley and Sahara labels in the 1950s and 1960s, and had a number 36 R&B chart hit in 1966 with "Think Twice Before You Speak". Many of his records featured guitarist and bandleader Johnny Heartsman. He also wrote songs under his real name, Smith, as in "On My Way", the B-side of his first single covering "Reconsider Baby" in 1964.
Blues 'N' Jazz
Blues 'N' Jazz is the twenty-eighth studio blues album by B.B. King released in 1983. It was recorded on his 57th birthday, September 16, 1983.
Rock Me Baby (song)
There is some confusion as to when B.B. King recorded "Rock Me Baby". Although King had signed to ABC-Paramount Records in January 14, 1962, his former label, Kent Records, continued to release singles (and albums) well into the 1970s. Recording dates have been estimated as "about 1958" to before 1962. The song was released shortly after King's Paramount release "How Blue Can You Get" in 1964 and reached number 34 in the "Billboard" Hot 100. "Rock Me Baby" was the first of six B.B. King records to reach the Top 40. In 1997, King re-recorded the song with Eric Clapton for the album "Deuces Wild".
James Albert King
James Albert King was born in 1864 and was of Irish and African descent. His birthplace has been speculated variously as Ohio, Pennsylvania, Ireland and Ireland, Ohio. King married Delia Linsey in 1895, and they both worked as sharecroppers, in Henry County and Clayton County in Georgia and then Stockbridge, Georgia where they settled and where their son, Martin Luther King Sr. was born in 1899. King struggled with alcoholism and disapproved of his son and wife attending church. When his son Martin became involved in an altercation with a white property owner the family went into hiding for a period. King died in 1933.
You Know I Love You (B.B. King song)
"You Know I Love You" is a 1952 song by B.B. King and his orchestra. The single was B.B. King's second release to reach the U.S. R&B chart and his second number one hit. "You Know I Know I Love You" spent eighteen weeks on the charts. King's friend and collaborator Ike Turner played piano on the original recording. It was this recording both Ike and Tina Turner credited as the song a 17-year-old Tina, then Anna Mae Bullock, sung for Ike at the East St. Louis nightclub, Club Manhattan, that convinced him to let her sing in his band, the Kings of Rhythm. In 1993, Tina would record a song for the "What's Love Got to Do with It" soundtrack and subsequent film, which is lipped by Angela Bassett, who plays Tina in the film, however the song Turner performs is a very different song than the one Tina sung in front of Ike Turner in 1956.
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).
B.B. King
King was married twice, to Martha Lee Denton, November 1946 to 1952, and to Sue Carol Hall, 1958 to 1966. The failure of both marriages has been attributed to the heavy demands made by King's 250 performances a year. It is reported that he fathered 15 children with several different women. After his death, three more have come forward, claiming King as their father as well. Though neither of his marriages produced children, and biographer Charles Sawyer wrote that doctors found his sperm count too low to conceive children, King never disputed paternity of any of the 15 who claimed it, and by all accounts was generous in bankrolling college tuitions and establishing trust funds. In May 2016, the 11 surviving children initiated legal proceedings against King's appointed trustee over his estimated $30 million to $40 million estate. Several of them also went public with the allegation that King's business manager, LaVerne Toney, and his personal assistant, Myron Johnson, had fatally poisoned him. Autopsy results showed no evidence of poisoning. A defamation suit filed by Johnson against the accusing family members (including his own sister, Karen Williams) is pending. Other children have filed lawsuits targeting King's music estate, which remains in dispute.
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.
Peter Green discography
With B. B. King
Bob P. King
Robert P. King (known professionally as Astrobob), born , is an American photographer, writer, and an amateur astronomer.
Bill King
King died of a pulmonary embolus in San Leandro, California, on October 18, 2005 at the age of 78. Although King had long refused to reveal his age, a search of the Social Security Death Index revealed he had been born on October 6, 1927, a year also confirmed by his son, Michael.
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.
Raymond B. King
King was born in Atlanta on November 16, 1965. He attended Erskine College in Due West, South Carolina, later transferring to the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he was active in the Chi Phi fraternity. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in management in 1987.
Joseph F. King
Joseph F. King (born c. 1948) is a former senior US Customs agent and criminal justice academic. He served for 33 years as a Special Agent in the United States Customs Service's New York office. He is an associate professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (since September 2003).
James King (bluegrass)
James Elroy King (September 9, 1958 - May 19, 2016) was an American bluegrass music singer.
Tom T. Hall dubbed King the “Bluegrass Storyteller,” for his ability to infuse his story songs with emotion and authenticity.
B.B. King
In September 1970, King recorded Live in Cook County Jail, during a time in which issues of race and class in the prison system were prominent in politics. King also co-founded the Foundation for the Advancement of Inmate Rehabilitation and Recreation, tying in his support for prisoners and interest in prison reform. In addition to prison reform, King also wanted to utilize prison performances as a way to preserve music and songs in a similar way that Alan Lomax did.
A. D. King
Alfred Daniel Williams King was born July 30, 1930, in Atlanta, Georgia. He was a son of Reverend Martin Luther King Sr. (1899–1984), and Alberta Williams King (1904–1974), the youngest of their three children (the other two being Willie Christine, born September 11, 1927, and Martin Luther King Jr., born January 15, 1929). In contrast to his peacemaking brother, Martin, A. D.—according to his father—was "a little rough at times" and "let his toughness build a reputation throughout our neighborhood". Less interested in academics than his siblings, King started a family of his own while still a teenager and attended college later in his life. He was married on June 17, 1950, to Naomi Ruth Barber (born November 17, 1932), with whom he had six children: Alveda, Alfred II, Derek, Darlene, James and Vernon.
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.
B.B. King
On May 26, 2013, King appeared at the New Orleans Jazz Festival.
Ben E. King
Benjamin Earl King (born Benjamin Earl Nelson, September 28, 1938 – April 30, 2015), known as Ben E. King, was an American soul and R&B singer and record producer. He was perhaps best known as the singer and co-composer of "Stand by Mea US Top 10 hit, both in 1961 and later in 1986 (when it was used as the theme to the film of the same name), a number one hit in the UK in 1987, and no. 25 on the RIAA's list of Songs of the Century—and as one of the principal lead singers of the R&B vocal group the Drifters notably singing the lead vocals of one of their biggest global hit singles (and only U.S. #1 hit) "Save the Last Dance for Me".
Benjamin King (author)
Benjamin King (also B. D. King) (born 1944) is an American author, military historian and noted war gamer. He served as a Field Artillery officer during the Vietnam War and later served as an historian for the US Army. He is best known for his historical novels "A Bullet for Stonewall" and "A Bullet for Lincoln".
Thomas J. King Jr.
Professor Thomas J. King Jr. (July 25, 1925 – 1994) was an educator, and an early user of word processing and sequence analysis to compare available early versions of William Shakespeare's plays for identification of variant texts and their analysis. Dr. King's historical work also researched original prompt copies of Elizabethan Era and Jacobean Era plays contemporary to Shakespeare, along with their marginalia, in order to identify stage directions and infer physical staging of Shakespeare's plays at the Globe and other London venues, as well as at provincial halls and inns where Elizabethan troupes performed on tour. In his extensive studies, Prof. King created databases of every Shakespeare play and other extant Elizabethan contemporary playhouse documents, by scene and character, to determine number of lines, and therefore the roles that could be doubled with sufficient time between for costume change, thus enabling him to determine the size of a working Elizabethan theater company.
B.B. King
On October 3, 2014, after completing his live performance at the House of Blues in Chicago, a doctor diagnosed King with dehydration and exhaustion, and the eight remaining shows of his ongoing tour had to be cancelled. King didn't schedule any additional shows for the remainder of the year.
Carleton J. King
King was born in Saratoga Springs, New York. He graduated from Union College and Albany Law School in 1926. He was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity at Union. King was an assistant district attorney of Saratoga County, New York from 1942 until 1950 and district attorney from 1950 until 1961. He was elected to Congress in 1960 and served from January 3, 1961 until his resignation on December 31, 1974. He unsuccessfully ran for re-election against Edward W. Pattison in 1974. King died on November 19, 1977; he was cremated and his ashes were scattered in the Gulf of Mexico near Bradenton, Florida.
Jon Brewer
The opportunity to Produce and Direct the biopic of B.B. King followed in 2012, ' B.B. King: The Life of Riley' ('Riley' being King's real first name)[1], and was contributed to by Bono, Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, Bruce Willis, Ringo Starr and many others narrated by Morgan Freeman.
B.B. King
King assembled his own band; the B.B. King Review, under the leadership of Millard Lee. The band initially consisted of Calvin Owens and Kenneth Sands (trumpet), Lawrence Burdin (alto saxophone), George Coleman (tenor saxophone), Floyd Newman (baritone saxophone), Millard Lee (piano), George Joyner (bass) and Earl Forest and Ted Curry (drums). Onzie Horne was a trained musician elicited as an arranger to assist King with his compositions. By his own admission, King could not play chords well and always relied on improvisation.
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."
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!"
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.
Bob King (basketball)
Bob King (August 24, 1923 – December 10, 2004) was a college basketball coach and administrator. He was head coach at the University of New Mexico from 1962 to 1972 and at Indiana State University from 1975 to 1978. He also served as Assistant Athletics Director at New Mexico (1972–73) and Athletics Director at Indiana State (1974–80).
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
In 1946, King followed Bukka White to Memphis, Tennessee. White took him in for the next ten months. However, King returned to Mississippi shortly afterward, where he decided to prepare himself better for the next visit, and returned to West Memphis, Arkansas, two years later in 1948. He performed on Sonny Boy Williamson's radio program on KWEM in West Memphis, where he began to develop an audience. King's appearances led to steady engagements at the Sixteenth Avenue Grill in West Memphis, and later to a ten-minute spot on the Memphis radio station WDIA. The radio spot became so popular that it was expanded and became the "Sepia Swing Club".
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.
Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park
The King Birth Home is located at 501 Auburn Avenue in the Sweet Auburn historic district. Built in 1895, it sits about a block east of Ebenezer Baptist Church. King's maternal grandparents, Reverend Adam Daniel (A.D.) Williams, who was pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, and his wife, Jennie Williams, bought the house for $3,500 in 1909. In 1926, when King's father married Alberta Williams, the couple moved into the house, where King Jr. was born in 1929.
John A. King (1817–1900)
John Alsop King Jr. (July 14, 1817 – November 21, 1900 Manhattan, New York City) was an American politician from New York.
3 O'Clock Blues
"3 O'Clock Blues" launched B.B. King's career and gave him his first opportunity to perform in front of national audience. Due to the song's success, he began performing in the big theaters, such as the Howard Theater in Washington and the Apollo in New York, with a significant increase in his weekly earnings, from about $85 to $2,500. It sparked a touring schedule that continued throughout King's career. In 1956, the song was included on King's first album, "Singin' the Blues". It has remained in King's repertoire and he has recorded several versions of the song, including a 2000 release with Eric Clapton for their "Riding with the King" album.
Emma B. King
Emma B. King (1857-1933) was an American impressionist from Indiana. She began her career as an artist in late 20s, and was a known participant in the
Indianapolis City Hospital Project.
Bob Young (news anchor)
Robert H. "Bob" Young (November 7, 1923 – January 19, 2011) was a television news journalist for ABC News. He served as the anchor of "The ABC Evening News" (now known as "World News Tonight") from October 1967 to May 1968. Young's most noteworthy broadcast took place on April 4, 1968, when he anchored ABC's coverage of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Celso Blues Boy
Carvalho was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1956. His stage name, "Blues Boy", is a homage to American singer B.B. King, one of his idols and major influences. (Celso would play alongside King in 1986, at a gig in Rio.) He began his musical career in 1970, with only 17 years old, accompanying bands and singers such as Raul Seixas, Sá & Guarabyra and Luiz Melodia. In 1976 he formed the band Legião Estrangeira, and started to perform in some bars and clubhouses of Rio.
B.B. King
In 1943, King left Kilmichael to work as a tractor driver and play guitar with the Famous St. John's Gospel Singers of Inverness, Mississippi, performing at area churches and on WGRM in Greenwood, Mississippi.
John &quot;Jabo&quot; Starks
With B.B. King
Charles King (character actor)
Charles Lafayette King (February 21, 1895 – May 7, 1957) was an American film actor who appeared in over 400 films between 1915 and 1953. According to the Internet Movie Database, his first film appearance was in "The Birth of a Nation", but this is unconfirmed.
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.
Basil King (painter and poet)
Basil King (born May 30, 1935) is an American painter and writer, associated with Black Mountain College, where he was a student as a teenager.
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.
Charles Brady King
King was born February 2, 1868, at Camp Reynolds on Angel Island, California. His father was a Civil War Union Army general, General John Haskell King. His mother was Matilda C. Davenport, from the New England family line of Davenports that settled in Detroit.
King (pop band)
In December 2013, KING released the music video "B.O.M.B.", directed by Nicholaus Goossen.
John E. King and Homer D. King
Homer Duncan King, who was born in 1897, began his journalism career as a young man, first on the "Hemet News," then the "Redlands Daily Facts" and the "San Bernardino Sun-Telegram" before becoming managing editor of the "Nevada State Journal" and finally of the "Hollywood Citizen-News." He held all those positions before he was age 30.
William H. King
William Henry King (June 3, 1863November 27, 1949) was an American lawyer, politician, and jurist from Salt Lake City, Utah. As a Democrat, King represented Utah in the United States Senate from 1917 until 1941.
A Christmas Celebration of Hope
A Christmas Celebration of Hope is the thirty ninth studio album by American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter B.B. King released in November 2001 through MCA Records. It is a holiday album.
Live &amp; Well (B.B. King album)
Live & Well is the sixteenth studio album by B. B. King released in 1969. It consists of five tracks recorded "Live" at the Village Gate in New York City, and five additional studio tracks.
Bob King (footballer)
Robert "Bob" King (12 August 1894 – 23 February 1979) was an Australian rules football player at the Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He became a premiership player at Fitzroy, playing in the 1916 VFL Grand Final, under the captaincy of Wally Johnson, with George Holden as coach. King made his debut against in Round 4 of the 1916 VFL season.
B.B. King in London
B.B. King in London is the nineteenth studio album by B.B. King recorded in London in 1971. He is accompanied by US session musicians and various British rock- and R&B musicians, including Ringo Starr, Alexis Korner and Rick Wright (not the same from Pink Floyd), as well as members of Spooky Tooth and Humble Pie, Greg Ridley, Steve Marriott, and Jerry Shirley.
Bart King
King was born in Philadelphia in 1873. Early in his life, he worked in a linen trade. Although this was the family business, his father later allowed him to leave to enter the insurance industry. King was not a member of the aristocratic and wealthy families of Philadelphia that produced many of the era's top cricketers. King's obituary in "Cricket Quarterly" suggests that his career in insurance was set up for him by those families to allow him to continue playing the game. In 1913 (or 1911), King married Fannie Lockhart; the marriage lasted for fifty years. King's wife died in 1963, and he died in 1965 in his native Philadelphia two days before his 92nd birthday.
B.B. King &quot;Into the Night&quot;
B.B. King "Into the Night" is a 1985 documentary film directed by Jeff A. Okun and co - directed by John Landis for Universal Pictures; it was produced by Leslie Belzberg, John Landis and George Folsey Jr.
J. C. King
On October 5, 1900, Joseph Caldwell King was born to Warren Charles King and Jessie Calhoun Caldwell in Brooklyn, New York. King would go on to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point as part of the Class of 1923 and will be assigned the Cullum Register Number 6992.
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.
Emmett King
Emmett Carleton King (May 31, 1865 in Griffin, Georgia, U.S. – April 21, 1953 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.) was an American actor of the stage and screen.
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.
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.
Bernard King (basketball, born 1981)
When he was eight, King's parents brought him to basketball camps run by Louisiana Tech and the Dallas Mavericks. Organizers of those camps realized quickly that King played at a much higher level than others in his age group, and recommended that he instead play in the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU). By the time he was in eighth grade, King was playing alongside high-school juniors and seniors. When given the opportunity to play in place of a guard who had fouled out, King sank three three-pointers in a row, helping his team to win the game. As a 14-year-old, he played on an AAU team for 17-year-olds, scoring six three-pointers in one game in the state playoffs before helping the team to win a national championship.
Charles King (musical actor)
Charles Joseph King (October 31, 1886 – January 11, 1944) was a vaudeville and Broadway actor who also starred in several movies. He starred as the leading actor in the hit MGM movie, "The Broadway Melody" (1929), the first all-talking film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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.
Maurice King (basketball)
Maurice E. "Maury" King (December 1, 1934 – September 17, 2007) was an American professional basketball player, who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Boston Celtics and Chicago Zephyrs, and with the Baltimore Bullets of the Eastern Professional Basketball League (EPBL) and the Kansas City Steers of the American Basketball League (ABL).
Anthony King (political scientist)
King was born in Canada on 17 November 1934, the son of Marjorie and Harold King. He gained a B.A. in History and Economics at Queen's University, Ontario. In the 1950s, he moved to UK as a Rhodes Scholar to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford, after which he gained a D.Phil. with thesis titled "Some aspects of the history of the Liberal Party in Britain, 1906–1914".
Bill King
Wilbur "Bill" King (October 6, 1927 – October 18, 2005) was an American sports announcer. In 2016, the National Baseball Hall of Fame named King recipient of the 2017 Ford C. Frick Award, the highest honor for American baseball broadcasters.
Hamish Anderson
Hamish Anderson is an Australian blues rock guitarist, songwriter and singer. He has shared the stage with B.B. King. He has released two EPs. His debut album "Trouble" was released on 21 October 2016. He was the last person to open a show for B.B. King before he died. In December 2016, Hamish was named as one of the 10 Best New Artists of 2016 by Yahoo! Music.
Billy King (vaudeville)
William "Billy" King (circa 1869 or 1875 – 1951) was an African-American vaudeville comedian and showman, who was described as "a living link between the Harlem Renaissance and nineteenth-century black minstrelsy."
Bnois King
King was born January 21, 1943, in Delhi, Louisiana, a small town thirty miles east of Monroe, Louisiana. He had seven brothers and two sisters. King started playing guitar at the early age of eight when he found an unused guitar in his grandmother's closet and started picking out notes. He attended Boley High School, which lacked a music teacher until his final year there. Up until then, the few songs he could play he played by ear. While still in high school, James Moody, the owner and bandleader of a 20-piece big band out of New Orleans (called "The New Sounds"), took him under his wing and gave him his first paying gig, for which King made $15. Once King realized he could make money playing guitar on stage is when he reports "...I really got serious" about playing guitar."
Hanford L. King Jr.
King was born on September 18, 1921 in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of Hanford Langdon King and Hephizibah Vernon Hopkins. In 1943 he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Clark University. He also studied at the Episcopal Theological Seminary from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Sacred Theology in 1946. He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Columbia University in 1950.
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.
Robert R. King
Robert R. "Bob" King (born June 8, 1942) is an American diplomat. He was nominated in September 2009 by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the United States Senate in November 2009, to serve as United States special envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues, an ambassadorial ranked position.
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.
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.
Louis Eugene King
Early Life
Haynes King
King was born at Barbados in December 1831, son of Robert M. King by his wife Maria. Coming to London in 1854, he became a student at Leigh's (afterwards Heatherley's) Academy in Newman Street, London. He first exhibited in 1857 at the Society of British Artists, of which he was elected a member in 1864 ; many of his works appeared at its exhibitions, and forty-eight were shown at the Royal Academy between 1860 and 1904. He worked at one period with Thomas Faed whose influence is seen in his work.
Bruce King
King was born on April 6, 1924 in Stanley, New Mexico. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. After the war, he attended the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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 (television)
Bernard James King (25 March 193420 December 2002) was an Australian stage actor, celebrity chef, and television personality.
John A. King (1817–1900)
King was born on July 14, 1817 in Jamaica, Queens County, New York. He was the second son of children born to New York Governor John Alsop King (1788–1867) and Mary (née Ray) King (1790–1873). His brother was Charles Ray King and his sister, Elizabeth Ray King, was married to U.S. Congressman Henry Bell Van Rensselaer.
Blonde Electra
Jazzy and Ruby King started to sing on the streets at an age of one or two at their father's instigation. He later formed with his five oldest children the Christian band The King Family and they toured through the world performing religious music as street musicians, in clubs, churches, schools and prisons and on TV shows. In 1998 they were offered a $4 million record deal by Word Records/Warner Music Group (US) which was refused by their father because of the young age of the children.
When Jazzy and Ruby King turned 15 and 13, now living again in Germany, they left their family to stay on their own and to sing in a night club, after their oldest brother Michael had already quit the band in 2003. The five siblings reunited in 2006 and started outside their father's control the band King Family, supported by the German producer Dieter Falk. They were soon given a record deal by EMI and published two singles and one album. In 2009 the band was invited to Nashville, Tennessee by Doc McGhee (the manager of KISS and Bon Jovi) and the siblings decided to emigrate to the United States. They parted ways with EMI and renamed their band to KING. Their move from a camping ground in Cologne to Los Angeles in June 2009 was accompanied by a film crew and was broadcast in the series "Goodbye Deutschland! Die Auswanderer" on the German TV channel VOX. At the end of 2013, KING released the music video "B.O.M.B.", directed by Nicholaus Goossen, in which Jazzy and Ruby King featured.
Hannah T. King
Hannah T. King (16 March 1808 – 25 September 1886) was a British-born American writer and pioneer. Converting to Mormonism while in England, her family emigrated to Utah in 1853 where she became very endeared to the people of that state. She was the author of "Songs of the Heart", several poems, as well as writings addressed to young readers. King was the last woman sealed to Brigham Young.
Emory King
Emory King (February 22, 1931, Jacksonville, Florida – August 14, 2007) was a Belizean historian, author and journalist. He served the nation of Belize in a number of capacities, including as National Film Commissioner.
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.
B.B. King
King was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 1990. He lived with diabetes for over 20 years, and was a high-profile spokesman in the fight against the disease.
Thomas Joseph King
Thomas J. King (June 4, 1921 – October 25, 2000) was an American biologist.
Louis Eugene King
Later Life
The Best of the Early Years (B.B. King album)
The Best of the Early Years is a 2007 Blues compilation album by B.B. King. This "Best of" collection was created from master recordings from King's works from the 1950s and 1960s.
The Thrill Is Gone
B.B. King recorded his version of "The Thrill Is Gone" in June 1969 for his album "Completely Well", released the same year. King's version is a slow 12-bar blues notated in the key of B minor in 4/4 time. The song's polished production and use of strings marked a departure from both the original song and King's previous material. When released as a single in December 1969, the song became one of the biggest hits of King's career, appearing in the R&B chart at number three and the "Billboard" Hot 100 pop chart at number 15 and became one of his signature songs.
A. D. King
Alfred Daniel Williams “A. D.” King (July 30, 1930 – July 21, 1969) was the younger brother of Martin Luther King Jr., the famed leader of the Civil Rights Movement. King was a Baptist minister and a civil rights activist.
My Kind of Blues
My Kind of Blues is the sixth studio album released by B. B. King in 1961. It apparently emanates from a single recording session from about March 3, 1960. A remastered and expanded edition was released in 2003.
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."
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.