Riley B. "B.B." King
(guitarist/singer, born September 16, 1925, Itta Bena, MS)

The most touching bluesman of our time, and the most influential electric guitarist ever, the "King of the
Blues" sums up his message with some simple advice. "I would say to all people, but maybe to young
people especially--black and white or whatever color--follow your own feelings and trust them, find out
what you want to do and do it, and then practice it every day of your life and keep becoming what you are,
despite any hardships and obstacles you meet."

So hard to follow yet so good to live by, those words also describe the course of the musician's
extraordinary career. The obstacles in his path were many: He was born during the Great Depression in the
poorest of American states, the son of black farm laborers. Only talent, hard work, and an unstoppable
artistic......

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