Riley Ben King was not as good as his cousin picking cotton. It was a kid in school age, but often spent days on a farm somewhere in the delta of the Mississippi dedicated to that hard work that began early. A good journey meant uncles remained calm. Her future ambition was then shaped by the idea that perhaps one day could prove to win their small plot of land that would work mounted on a tractor, returning home to a beautiful woman and the children they had brought into the world. It did not seem destined for great flights. Not even on cotton.
The horizons that were idealized fifth-narrowing as their pockets and friends, over the years, still almost empty; while, on the other hand, reports the music that came from a Memphis that seemed immensely distant beginning to sound more promising. BB King has done its part to move to the city; the destination, which already had marked with a royal name, tried to show you the way to Sam Phillips studio. I was blessing that was looking for, could not have chanced in better hands. Phillips was the founder of Sun Studios and the legendary Sun Records, passed by Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Howlin ‘Wolf and many other makers of American musical soul. Symptomatically, then in the 50s, the talent of this young musician who began by playing guitar with gospel groups, would not escape the Phillips ears. Hardly guess, however, that there was one of the musicians who would make history when transporting the original language of acoustic blues to electric expression.
Deceased after 89 years in Las Vegas late on quinta- fair, BB King was probably most responsible for popularizing the blues. Living with Type II diabetes since the 80s, were the complications of the disease to the victim it. Grief reactions quickly swelled on social networks in the following hours at his death, coming from all quarters. Ringo Starr Snoop Dogg, Bryan Adams the lead singer of Kiss Gene Simmons. Eric Clapton, assumed follower of King, claimed the Los Angeles Times in 2005 that “BB touches something universal; can not be confined to a single genre. “It is of course unthinkable divert BB King blues, having been one of its major figures and rare to win a global scale, but it is a fact that their language by taking up electricity , eventually drawing lessons in jazz Charlie Christian, the big bands of Count Basie, a wide bluesmen gallery that he would expand through a language dubbed “Memphis Blues” – I shared with the genesis of rock’n’roll a sound more . fiery and intense
Memphis was also the birthplace of the formation of BB King, whose initials were to be repescadas in the appointment of DJ on the radio – Blues Boy First, through a lesson in humility:. “I thought it was really good. But when I got to Memphis and went to Handy Park – at the time was called Beale Street Park – and I heard those people, it was as if there was a university in the streets! And I found out then that did not sing that well, “he recalled in an interview with Academy of Achievement. “Via people on the street to dance and I did not even know walk.” Then he had his only lessons seriously, ordering, buying and obsessively studying guitar manuals in a local store.
Looking like a detail, not It is. Curiosity and the desire to explore the guitar would make BB King not merely a perpetrator of a song that had been bequeathed by the Mississippi region, but an instigator of new ways. Concentrating itself much of the black musical tradition, centered around the blues, BB King spoke of Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Bach and Beethoven as legends whose level dreamed arrive. “My only ambition is to be one of the great singers of blues and be recognized,” said King to music journalist Michael Lydon, now quoted by Washington Post . In the same publication, the blues historian Peter Guralnick does not deny her that status in history: “It has the same place in the blues that Louis Armstrong had in jazz. It is an ambassador for music. “
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More than a collection of 15 Grammy Awards, more so than the millions of discs that have sold around the world, BB King gave a face to the popular blues. For a few, Howlin ‘Wolf, Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson are the most iconic names of this music. But even more than Buddy Guy and John Lee Hooker, BB King has achieved recognition far beyond his musical source, having worked throughout his career with some of the biggest names in rock such as Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Rolling Stones, David Gilmour, U2 or Joe Cocker. Partly as a critical note of the New York Times Jon Pareles, for their tireless life on the road, playing all over the world in all the opportunities that presented themselves to him – in Portugal, were several instances first in 1973, and came to share the stage with Rui Veloso. It was customary to years with more than 250 concerts.
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