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class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Additional_honors"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.2 Additional honors </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Additional_honors-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9 See also </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 10 References </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 11 Further reading </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 12 External links </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-label" 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B. King</h1> <div id="p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-lang" > <input type="checkbox" id="p-lang-btn-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox mw-interlanguage-selector" aria-label="Go to an article in another language. Available in 82 languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-82" aria-hidden="true" > 82 languages </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-af mw-list-item"><a href="https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King" title="B.B. King – Afrikaans" lang="af" hreflang="af" data-title="B.B. King" data-language-autonym="Afrikaans" data-language-local-name="Afrikaans" class="interlanguage-link-target">Afrikaans</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-als mw-list-item"><a href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._King" title="B. B. King – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="B. B. King" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Alemannisch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D9%8A_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%BA" title="بي بي كينغ – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="بي بي كينغ" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King" title="B.B. King – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="B.B. King" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Aragonés</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._King" title="B. B. King – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="B. B. King" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Asturianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._Kinq" title="B. B. Kinq – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="B. B. Kinq" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C.%D8%A8%DB%8C._%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%82" title="بی.بی. کینق – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="بی.بی. کینق" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">تۆرکجه</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%96_%D0%91%D1%96_%D0%9A%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B3" title="Бі Бі Кінг – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Бі Бі Кінг" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%96_%D0%91%D1%96_%D0%9A%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B3" title="Бі Бі Кінг – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Бі Бі Кінг" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8_%D0%91%D0%B8_%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3" title="Би Би Кинг – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Би Би Кинг" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bar mw-list-item"><a href="https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._King" title="B. B. King – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="B. B. King" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Boarisch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._King" title="B. B. King – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="B. B. King" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bosanski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King" title="B.B. King – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="B.B. King" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target">Brezhoneg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King" title="B.B. King – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="B.B. King" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._King" title="B. B. King – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="B. B. King" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._King" title="B. B. King – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="B. B. King" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cymraeg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King" title="B.B. King – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="B.B. King" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._King" title="B. B. King – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="B. B. King" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://dsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._King" title="B. B. King – Lower Sorbian" lang="dsb" hreflang="dsb" data-title="B. B. King" data-language-autonym="Dolnoserbski" data-language-local-name="Lower Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dolnoserbski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King" title="B.B. King – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="B.B. King" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King" title="B.B. King – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="B.B. King" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._King" title="B. B. King – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="B. B. King" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King" title="B.B. King – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="B.B. King" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._King" title="B. B. King – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="B. B. King" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C.%D8%A8%DB%8C._%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF" title="بی.بی. کینگ – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="بی.بی. کینگ" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King" title="B.B. King – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="B.B. King" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Føroyskt</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._King" title="B. B. King – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="B. B. King" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King" title="B.B. King – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="B.B. King" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gaeilge</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King" title="B.B. King – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="B.B. King" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._%ED%82%B9" title="B.B. 킹 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="B.B. 킹" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ha mw-list-item"><a href="https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King" title="B.B. King – Hausa" lang="ha" hreflang="ha" data-title="B.B. King" data-language-autonym="Hausa" data-language-local-name="Hausa" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hausa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B2%D5%AB_%D4%B2%D5%AB_%D5%94%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%A3" title="Բի Բի Քինգ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Բի Բի Քինգ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._King" title="B. B. King – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="B. B. King" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._King" title="B. B. King – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="B. B. King" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ido</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King" title="B.B. King – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" data-title="B.B. King" data-language-autonym="Ilokano" data-language-local-name="Iloko" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ilokano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King" title="B.B. King – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="B.B. King" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King" title="B.B. King – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="B.B. King" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%99._%D7%91%D7%99._%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%92" title="בי. בי. קינג – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="בי. בי. קינג" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%91%E1%83%98_%E1%83%91%E1%83%98_%E1%83%99%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%92%E1%83%98" title="ბი ბი კინგი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ბი ბი კინგი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8_%D0%91%D0%B8_%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3" title="Би Би Кинг – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Би Би Кинг" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Қазақша</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King" title="B.B. King – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="B.B. King" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kiswahili</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._Kings" title="B. B. Kings – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="B. B. Kings" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._King" title="B. B. King – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="B. B. King" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lëtzebuergesch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._King" title="B. B. King – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="B. B. King" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._King" title="B. B. King – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="B. B. King" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8_%D0%91%D0%B8_%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3" title="Би Би Кинг – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Би Би Кинг" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Македонски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King" title="B.B. King – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="B.B. King" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target">Malagasy</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AC%E0%B4%BF.%E0%B4%AC%E0%B4%BF._%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%82%E0%B4%99%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%99%E0%B5%8D" title="ബി.ബി. കിംങ്ങ് – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ബി.ബി. കിംങ്ങ്" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target">മലയാളം</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%89_%D8%A8%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC" title="بى بى كينج – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="بى بى كينج" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%98%E1%80%AE%E1%80%98%E1%80%AE%E1%80%80%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8" title="ဘီဘီကင်း – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="ဘီဘီကင်း" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target">မြန်မာဘာသာ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King" title="B.B. King – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="B.B. King" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B.%E3%82%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0" title="B.B.キング – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="B.B.キング" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King" title="B.B. King – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="B.B. King" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King" title="B.B. King – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="B.B. King" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk nynorsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._King" title="B. B. King – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="B. B. King" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Occitan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._King" title="B. B. King – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="B. B. King" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%AC%E0%A9%80._%E0%A8%AC%E0%A9%80._%E0%A8%95%E0%A8%BF%E0%A9%B0%E0%A8%97" title="ਬੀ. ਬੀ. ਕਿੰਗ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਬੀ. ਬੀ. ਕਿੰਗ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target">ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._King" title="B. B. King – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="B. B. King" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Plattdüütsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King" title="B.B. King – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="B.B. King" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._King" title="B. B. King – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="B. B. King" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King" title="B.B. King – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="B.B. King" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._King" title="B. B. King – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="B. B. King" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target">Runa Simi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3,_%D0%91%D0%B8_%D0%91%D0%B8" title="Кинг, Би Би – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Кинг, Би Би" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sc mw-list-item"><a href="https://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._King" title="B. B. King – Sardinian" lang="sc" hreflang="sc" data-title="B. B. King" data-language-autonym="Sardu" data-language-local-name="Sardinian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sardu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King" title="B.B. King – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="B.B. King" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target">Scots</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King" title="B.B. King – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="B.B. King" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Simple English</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._King" title="B. B. King – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="B. B. King" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenčina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8-%D0%91%D0%B8_%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3" title="Би-Би Кинг – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Би-Би Кинг" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Српски / srpski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._King" title="B. B. King – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="B. B. King" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._King" title="B. B. King – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="B. B. King" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Suomi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King" title="B.B. King – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="B.B. King" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Svenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%B5.%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%B5._%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%87" title="บี.บี. คิง – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="บี.บี. คิง" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target">ไทย</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King" title="B.B. King – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="B.B. King" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Türkçe</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%96_%D0%91%D1%96_%D0%9A%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B3" title="Бі Бі Кінг – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Бі Бі Кінг" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Українська</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vec mw-list-item"><a href="https://vec.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King" title="B.B. King – Venetian" lang="vec" hreflang="vec" data-title="B.B. King" data-language-autonym="Vèneto" data-language-local-name="Venetian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Vèneto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King" title="B.B. King – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="B.B. King" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tiếng Việt</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vo mw-list-item"><a href="https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._King" title="B. B. King – Volapük" lang="vo" hreflang="vo" data-title="B. B. King" data-language-autonym="Volapük" data-language-local-name="Volapük" class="interlanguage-link-target">Volapük</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-war mw-list-item"><a href="https://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King" title="B.B. King – Waray" lang="war" hreflang="war" data-title="B.B. 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class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter (1925–2015)</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and 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B. King</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a href="/wiki/File:B.B._King_07.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Publicity photo, 1980s"><img alt="Publicity photo, 1980s" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/B.B._King_07.jpg/275px-B.B._King_07.jpg" decoding="async" width="275" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/B.B._King_07.jpg/413px-B.B._King_07.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/B.B._King_07.jpg/550px-B.B._King_07.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2561" data-file-height="1863" /></a><div class="infobox-caption">Publicity photo, 1980s</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de">Background information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Birth name</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">Riley B. King</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">(1925-09-16)September 16, 1925 near <a href="/wiki/Itta_Bena,_Mississippi" title="Itta Bena, Mississippi">Itta Bena, Mississippi</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">May 14, 2015(2015-05-14) (aged 89) <a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas,_Nevada" class="mw-redirect" title="Las Vegas, Nevada">Las Vegas, Nevada</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genres</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output 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href="/wiki/Electric_blues" title="Electric blues">Electric blues</a><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Rhythm_and_blues" title="Rhythm and blues">rhythm and blues</a><a href="#cite_note-blues_bridge-2">[2]</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Rock_and_roll" title="Rock and roll">rock and roll</a><a href="#cite_note-blues_bridge-2">[2]</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Soul_music" title="Soul music">soul</a><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Gospel_music" title="Gospel music">gospel</a><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupations</th><td class="infobox-data role"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Musician</li><li>singer</li><li>songwriter</li><li>record producer</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Instruments</th><td class="infobox-data note"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Guitar</li><li>vocals</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1942–2014</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Labels</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/RPM_Records_(United_States)" title="RPM Records (United States)">RPM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crown_Records" title="Crown Records">Crown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kent_Records" title="Kent Records">Kent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ABC_Records" title="ABC Records">ABC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BluesWay_Records" title="BluesWay Records">BluesWay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MCA_Records" title="MCA Records">MCA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geffen_Records" title="Geffen Records">Geffen</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de"></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bbking.com">bbking.com</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Musical artist</div> Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B. B. King, was an American <a href="/wiki/Blues" title="Blues">blues</a> guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of <a href="/wiki/Guitar_solo" title="Guitar solo">soloing</a> based on fluid <a href="/wiki/String_bending" title="String bending">string bending</a>, shimmering <a href="/wiki/Vibrato" title="Vibrato">vibrato</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Staccato" title="Staccato">staccato</a> <a href="/wiki/Guitar_picking" title="Guitar picking">picking</a> that influenced many later blues <a href="/wiki/Electric_guitar" title="Electric guitar">electric guitar</a> players.<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-Dahl-6">[6]</a> <a href="/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic">AllMusic</a> recognized King as "the single most important electric guitarist of the last half of the 20th century".<a href="#cite_note-Dahl-6">[6]</a> King was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame" title="Rock and Roll Hall of Fame">Rock and Roll Hall of Fame</a> in 1987 and is one of the most influential blues musicians of all time, earning the <a href="/wiki/Honorific_nicknames_in_popular_music" title="Honorific nicknames in popular music">nickname</a> "The King of the Blues", and is considered one of the "Three Kings of the Blues Guitar" (along with <a href="/wiki/Albert_King" title="Albert King">Albert King</a> and <a href="/wiki/Freddie_King" title="Freddie King">Freddie King</a>, none of whom are related).<a href="#cite_note-hal-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-gibson-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-cbs-9">[9]</a> King performed tirelessly throughout his musical career, appearing on average at more than 200 concerts per year into his 70s.<a href="#cite_note-halloffame-10">[10]</a> In 1956 alone, he appeared at 342 shows.<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> King was born on a cotton <a href="/wiki/Plantation" title="Plantation">plantation</a> of <a href="/wiki/Berclair,_Mississippi" title="Berclair, Mississippi">Berclair</a>, near the city of <a href="/wiki/Itta_Bena,_Mississippi" title="Itta Bena, Mississippi">Itta Bena, Mississippi</a>, and later worked at a <a href="/wiki/Cotton_gin" title="Cotton gin">cotton gin</a> in <a href="/wiki/Indianola,_Mississippi" title="Indianola, Mississippi">Indianola</a>, Mississippi. He was attracted to music and taught himself to play guitar and began his career in <a href="/wiki/Juke_joint" title="Juke joint">juke joints</a> and local radio. He later lived in <a href="/wiki/Memphis,_Tennessee" title="Memphis, Tennessee">Memphis</a> and Chicago; then, as his fame grew, he toured the world extensively. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=B._B._King&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life">edit</a>]</div> Riley B. King was born on September 16, 1925,<a href="#cite_note-Encyclopedia_of_the_Blues-12">[12]</a> on a cotton <a href="/wiki/Plantation" title="Plantation">plantation</a> of <a href="/wiki/Berclair,_Mississippi" title="Berclair, Mississippi">Berclair</a> named Bear Creek in <a href="/wiki/Leflore_County,_Mississippi" title="Leflore County, Mississippi">Leflore County</a>,<a href="#cite_note-hmdb-13">[13]</a> near the city of <a href="/wiki/Itta_Bena,_Mississippi" title="Itta Bena, Mississippi">Itta Bena, Mississippi</a>,<a href="#cite_note-Dahl-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-jazz-14">[14]</a> the son of <a href="/wiki/Sharecropping" title="Sharecropping">sharecroppers</a> Albert and Nora Ella King.<a href="#cite_note-jazz-14">[14]</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Kilmichael,_Mississippi" title="Kilmichael, Mississippi">Kilmichael</a>, Mississippi,<a href="#cite_note-jazz-14">[14]</a> then in <a href="/wiki/Lexington,_Mississippi" title="Lexington, Mississippi">Lexington</a>.<a href="#cite_note-hmdb-13">[13]</a> As a teen, he moved to <a href="/wiki/Indianola,_Mississippi" title="Indianola, Mississippi">Indianola</a>, which he referred to as his hometown and he later worked at a <a href="/wiki/Cotton_gin" title="Cotton gin">cotton gin</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Danchin-15">[15]</a> King served in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">U.S. Army</a> during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> but was released after being ruled as "essential to the war economy" based on his experience as a tractor driver.<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> While young, King sang in the <a href="/wiki/Gospel_music" title="Gospel music">gospel</a> choir at Elkhorn Baptist Church in <a href="/wiki/Kilmichael,_Mississippi" title="Kilmichael, Mississippi">Kilmichael</a>. King was attracted to the <a href="/wiki/Pentecostalism" title="Pentecostalism">Pentecostal</a> <a href="/wiki/Church_of_God_in_Christ" title="Church of God in Christ">Church of God in Christ</a> because of its music. The local minister performed with a <a href="/wiki/Sears" title="Sears">Sears</a> Roebuck Silvertone guitar during services and taught King his first three chords.<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> King's first guitar was bought for him by Flake Cartledge, his employer in Kilmichael, for 15 dollars. Cartledge withheld money from King's salary for the next two months until the debt was repaid.<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a><a href="#cite_note-jazz-14">[14]</a> In November 1941, <a href="/wiki/King_Biscuit_Time" title="King Biscuit Time">King Biscuit Time</a> first aired, broadcasting on <a href="/wiki/KFFA_(AM)" title="KFFA (AM)">KFFA</a> in <a href="/wiki/Helena,_Arkansas" title="Helena, Arkansas">Helena, Arkansas</a>. It was a radio show featuring the Mississippi Delta blues. King listened to it while on break at a plantation. A self-taught guitarist, he then wanted to become a radio musician.<a href="#cite_note-Defining-21">[21]</a> In 1943, King left Kilmichael to work as a tractor driver and play guitar with the Famous St. John's Gospel Singers of <a href="/wiki/Inverness,_Mississippi" title="Inverness, Mississippi">Inverness</a>, Mississippi, performing at area churches and on <a href="/wiki/WGRM_(AM)" title="WGRM (AM)">WGRM</a> in <a href="/wiki/Greenwood,_Mississippi" title="Greenwood, Mississippi">Greenwood</a>.<a href="#cite_note-nvlp3-22">[22]</a><a href="#cite_note-ppg070125-23">[23]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Poster_of_B.B._King_and_Bill_Harvey_(saxophonist)_and_Orchestra,_featuring_photos_of_B.B._King_holding_his_guitar_and_Evelyn_Young_playing_saxaphone._-_8049g557h_files_92a57ed3-1d17-4a52-bda9-53dd48145101.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Poster_of_B.B._King_and_Bill_Harvey_%28saxophonist%29_and_Orchestra%2C_featuring_photos_of_B.B._King_holding_his_guitar_and_Evelyn_Young_playing_saxaphone._-_8049g557h_files_92a57ed3-1d17-4a52-bda9-53dd48145101.jpg/170px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="223" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Poster_of_B.B._King_and_Bill_Harvey_%28saxophonist%29_and_Orchestra%2C_featuring_photos_of_B.B._King_holding_his_guitar_and_Evelyn_Young_playing_saxaphone._-_8049g557h_files_92a57ed3-1d17-4a52-bda9-53dd48145101.jpg/255px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Poster_of_B.B._King_and_Bill_Harvey_%28saxophonist%29_and_Orchestra%2C_featuring_photos_of_B.B._King_holding_his_guitar_and_Evelyn_Young_playing_saxaphone._-_8049g557h_files_92a57ed3-1d17-4a52-bda9-53dd48145101.jpg/340px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="859" data-file-height="1128" /></a><figcaption>Poster of B. B. King and Bill Harvey and Orchestra with a photo of King holding his guitar and Evelyn Young playing saxophone</figcaption></figure> In 1946, King followed <a href="/wiki/Bukka_White" title="Bukka White">Bukka White</a> to <a href="/wiki/Memphis,_Tennessee" title="Memphis, Tennessee">Memphis, Tennessee</a>. White took him in for the next ten months.<a href="#cite_note-jazz-14">[14]</a> King returned shortly afterward to Mississippi, where he better prepared himself for the next visit. Two years later, he returned to <a href="/wiki/West_Memphis,_Arkansas" title="West Memphis, Arkansas">West Memphis, Arkansas</a> in 1948. He performed on <a href="/wiki/Sonny_Boy_Williamson_II" title="Sonny Boy Williamson II">Sonny Boy Williamson</a>'s radio program on <a href="/wiki/KWAM" title="KWAM">KWEM</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/WDIA" title="WDIA">WDIA</a>.<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> The radio spot became so popular that it was expanded and became the Sepia Swing Club.<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> He worked at WDIA as a singer and disc jockey, where he was given the nickname "<a href="/wiki/Beale_Street" title="Beale Street">Beale Street</a> Blues Boy", later shortened to "Blues Boy", and finally to "B. B."<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a><a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a><a href="#cite_note-pc4-28">[28]</a> It was there that he first met <a href="/wiki/T-Bone_Walker" title="T-Bone Walker">T-Bone Walker</a>. 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!"<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=B._B._King&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1949–2005">1949–2005</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=B._B._King&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 1949–2005">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:B.B._King_Hamburg_1971.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/B.B._King_Hamburg_1971.jpg/170px-B.B._King_Hamburg_1971.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/B.B._King_Hamburg_1971.jpg/255px-B.B._King_Hamburg_1971.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/B.B._King_Hamburg_1971.jpg/340px-B.B._King_Hamburg_1971.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="1000" /></a><figcaption>King on stage in Hamburg 1971</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BBKingNY.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/BBKingNY.jpg/170px-BBKingNY.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="213" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/BBKingNY.jpg/255px-BBKingNY.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/BBKingNY.jpg/340px-BBKingNY.jpg 2x" data-file-width="509" data-file-height="639" /></a><figcaption>King playing his favorite guitar, <a href="/wiki/Lucille_(guitar)" title="Lucille (guitar)">Lucille</a>, in the 1980s</figcaption></figure> In the late 1940s and early 1950s, King was a part of the blues scene on <a href="/wiki/Beale_Street" title="Beale Street">Beale Street</a>. "Beale Street was where it all started for me," King said. He performed with <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Bland" title="Bobby Bland">Bobby Bland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Ace" title="Johnny Ace">Johnny Ace</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Earl_Forest" title="Earl Forest">Earl Forest</a> in a group known as <a href="/wiki/The_Beale_Streeters" title="The Beale Streeters">the Beale Streeters</a>.<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> According to King and Joe Bihari, <a href="/wiki/Ike_Turner" title="Ike Turner">Ike Turner</a> introduced King to the <a href="/wiki/Bihari_brothers" title="Bihari brothers">Bihari brothers</a> while he was a talent scout at <a href="/wiki/Modern_Records" title="Modern Records">Modern Records</a>.<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a><a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> In 1949, King began recording songs under contract with Los Angeles-based <a href="/wiki/RPM_Records_(United_States)" title="RPM Records (United States)">RPM Records</a>, a subsidiary of Modern. Many of King's early recordings were produced by <a href="/wiki/Sam_Phillips" title="Sam Phillips">Sam Phillips</a>, who later founded <a href="/wiki/Sun_Records" title="Sun Records">Sun Records</a>. Before his RPM contract, King had debuted on <a href="/wiki/Bullet_Records" title="Bullet Records">Bullet Records</a> by issuing the single "Miss Martha King" (1949), which did not chart well. "My very first recordings [in 1949] were[sic] for a company out of Nashville called Bullet, the Bullet Record Transcription company," King recalled. "I had horns that very first session. I had <a href="/wiki/Phineas_Newborn" class="mw-redirect" title="Phineas Newborn">Phineas Newborn</a> on piano; his father played drums, and his brother, <a href="/wiki/Calvin_Newborn" title="Calvin Newborn">Calvin</a>, played guitar with me. I had <a href="/wiki/Tuff_Green" title="Tuff Green">Tuff Green</a> on bass, <a href="/wiki/Ben_Branch" title="Ben Branch">Ben Branch</a> 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."<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> King assembled his 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), <a href="/wiki/George_Coleman" title="George Coleman">George Coleman</a> (tenor saxophone),<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> <a href="/wiki/Floyd_Newman" title="Floyd Newman">Floyd Newman</a> (baritone saxophone), Millard Lee (piano), <a href="/wiki/George_Joyner" class="mw-redirect" title="George Joyner">George Joyner</a> (bass) and Earl Forest and Ted Curry (drums). <a href="/wiki/Onzie_Horne" title="Onzie Horne">Onzie Horne</a> was a trained musician enlisted as an arranger to assist King with his compositions. By his admission, King could not play chords well and always relied on <a href="/wiki/Improvisation" title="Improvisation">improvisation</a>.<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> King's recording contract was followed by tours across the United States, with performances in major theaters in cities such as Washington, D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, and St. Louis, as well as numerous gigs in small clubs and <a href="/wiki/Juke_joint" title="Juke joint">juke joints</a> of the southern United States. During one show in <a href="/wiki/Twist,_Arkansas" title="Twist, Arkansas">Twist, Arkansas</a>, a brawl broke out between two men and caused a fire. He evacuated with the rest of the crowd but returned to retrieve his guitar. He said he later discovered that the two men were fighting over a woman named Lucille. He named the guitar <a href="/wiki/Lucille_(guitar)" title="Lucille (guitar)">Lucille</a> as a reminder not to fight over women or run into any more burning buildings.<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Twist_AR_BB_king_Marker_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Twist_AR_BB_king_Marker_1.jpg/170px-Twist_AR_BB_king_Marker_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Twist_AR_BB_king_Marker_1.jpg/255px-Twist_AR_BB_king_Marker_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Twist_AR_BB_king_Marker_1.jpg/340px-Twist_AR_BB_king_Marker_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>The story of a guitar named <a href="/wiki/Lucille_(guitar)" title="Lucille (guitar)">Lucille</a> </figcaption></figure> Following his first <a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)">Billboard</a> <a href="/wiki/Hot_R%26B/Hip-Hop_Songs" title="Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs">Rhythm and Blues charted</a> number one, "<a href="/wiki/3_O%27Clock_Blues" title="3 O'Clock Blues">3 O'Clock Blues</a>" (February 1952),<a href="#cite_note-sawyer-37">[37]</a> King became one of the most important names in <a href="/wiki/Rhythm_and_blues" title="Rhythm and blues">R&B</a> music in the 1950s, amassing an impressive list of hits<a href="#cite_note-pc4-28">[28]</a> including "<a href="/wiki/You_Know_I_Love_You_(B.B._King_song)" class="mw-redirect" title="You Know I Love You (B.B. King song)">You Know I Love You</a>", "Woke Up This Morning", "Please Love Me", "When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer", "Whole Lotta' Love", "You Upset Me Baby", "<a href="/wiki/Every_Day_I_Have_the_Blues" title="Every Day I Have the Blues">Every Day I Have the Blues</a>", "Sneakin' Around", "Ten Long Years", "Bad Luck", "<a href="/wiki/Sweet_Little_Angel" class="mw-redirect" title="Sweet Little Angel">Sweet Little Angel</a>", "On My Word of Honor", and "Please Accept My Love". This led to a significant increase in his weekly earnings, from about $85 to $2,500,<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a><a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> with appearances at major venues such as the <a href="/wiki/Howard_Theater" class="mw-redirect" title="Howard Theater">Howard Theater</a> in Washington and the <a href="/wiki/Apollo_Theater" title="Apollo Theater">Apollo</a> in New York, as well as touring the "<a href="/wiki/Chitlin%27_Circuit" title="Chitlin' Circuit">Chitlin' Circuit</a>". 1956 became a record-breaking year, with 342 concerts booked and three recording sessions.<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> That same year he founded his own record label, Blues Boys Kingdom, with headquarters at Beale Street in Memphis. There, among other projects, he was a producer for artists such as Millard Lee and Levi Seabury.<a href="#cite_note-Danchin-15">[15]</a> In 1962, King signed to <a href="/wiki/ABC-Paramount_Records" class="mw-redirect" title="ABC-Paramount Records">ABC-Paramount Records</a>, which was later absorbed into <a href="/wiki/MCA_Records" title="MCA Records">MCA Records</a> (which itself was later absorbed into <a href="/wiki/Geffen_Records" title="Geffen Records">Geffen Records</a>). In November 1964, King recorded the <a href="/wiki/Live_at_the_Regal" title="Live at the Regal">Live at the Regal</a> album at the <a href="/wiki/Regal_Theater,_South_Side_(Chicago)" class="mw-redirect" title="Regal Theater, South Side (Chicago)">Regal Theater</a>.<a href="#cite_note-sawyer-37">[37]</a> King later said that Regal Live "is considered by some the best recording I've ever had ... that particular day in Chicago everything came together."<a href="#cite_note-Kot-41">[41]</a> From the late 1960s, new manager Sid Seidenberg pushed King into a different type of venue as blues-rock performers like <a href="/wiki/Eric_Clapton" title="Eric Clapton">Eric Clapton</a> (once a member of <a href="/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds">the Yardbirds</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Cream_(band)" title="Cream (band)">Cream</a>) and Paul Butterfield were popularizing an appreciation of blues music among white audiences.<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> King gained further visibility among rock audiences as an opening act on <a href="/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones" title="The Rolling Stones">the Rolling Stones</a>' <a href="/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones_American_Tour_1969" title="The Rolling Stones American Tour 1969">1969 American Tour</a>.<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> He won a 1970 <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammy Award">Grammy Award</a> for his version of the song "<a href="/wiki/The_Thrill_Is_Gone" title="The Thrill Is Gone">The Thrill Is Gone</a>",<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> which was a hit on both the Pop and R&B <a href="/wiki/Record_chart" title="Record chart">charts</a>. It also gained the number 183 spot in Rolling Stone magazine's <a href="/wiki/500_Greatest_Songs_of_All_Time" class="mw-redirect" title="500 Greatest Songs of All Time">500 Greatest Songs of All Time</a>.<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a> King was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/Blues_Hall_of_Fame" title="Blues Hall of Fame">Blues Hall of Fame</a> in 1980, the <a href="/wiki/Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame" title="Rock and Roll Hall of Fame">Rock and Roll Hall of Fame</a> in 1987, and the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame in 2014.<a href="#cite_note-halloffame-10">[10]</a><a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> In 2004, he was awarded the international <a href="/wiki/Polar_Music_Prize" title="Polar Music Prize">Polar Music Prize</a>, given to artists "in recognition of exceptional achievements in the creation and advancement of music."<a href="#cite_note-Polar_Music_Prize-47">[47]</a> From the 1980s to his death in 2015, he maintained a highly visible and active career, appearing on numerous television shows and sometimes performing 300 nights a year. In 1988, King reached a new generation of fans with the single "<a href="/wiki/When_Love_Comes_to_Town" title="When Love Comes to Town">When Love Comes to Town</a>", a collaborative effort between King and the Irish band <a href="/wiki/U2" title="U2">U2</a> on their <a href="/wiki/Rattle_and_Hum" title="Rattle and Hum">Rattle and Hum</a> album.<a href="#cite_note-sawyer-37">[37]</a> In December 1997, he performed in the Vatican's fifth annual Christmas concert and presented his trademark guitar "Lucille" to <a href="/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" title="Pope John Paul II">Pope John Paul II</a>.<a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a><a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> In 1998, King appeared in <a href="/wiki/Blues_Brothers_2000" title="Blues Brothers 2000">The Blues Brothers 2000</a>, playing the part of the lead singer of the Louisiana Gator Boys, along with <a href="/wiki/Eric_Clapton" title="Eric Clapton">Eric Clapton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dr._John" title="Dr. John">Dr. John</a>, <a href="/wiki/Koko_Taylor" title="Koko Taylor">Koko Taylor</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bo_Diddley" title="Bo Diddley">Bo Diddley</a>. In 2000, he and Clapton teamed up again to record <a href="/wiki/Riding_with_the_King_(B.B._King_and_Eric_Clapton_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="Riding with the King (B.B. King and Eric Clapton album)">Riding With the King</a>, which won a <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Traditional_Blues_Album" title="Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album">Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album</a>.<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> Discussing where he took the Blues, from "dirt floor, smoke in the air" joints to grand concert halls, King said the Blues belonged everywhere beautiful music belonged. He successfully worked both sides of the commercial divide, with sophisticated recordings and "raw, raucous" live performances.<a href="#cite_note-Kot-41">[41]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2006–2014">2006–2014</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=B._B._King&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 2006–2014">edit</a>]</div> In 2006, King went on a "farewell" world tour, although he remained active afterward.<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> The tour was partly supported by Northern Irish guitarist, <a href="/wiki/Gary_Moore" title="Gary Moore">Gary Moore</a>, with whom King had previously toured and recorded. It started in the United Kingdom and continued with performances at the <a href="/wiki/Montreux_Jazz_Festival" title="Montreux Jazz Festival">Montreux Jazz Festival</a> and in Zürich at the Blues at Sunset. During his show in Montreux at the Stravinski Hall, he jammed with <a href="/wiki/Joe_Sample" title="Joe Sample">Joe Sample</a>, <a href="/wiki/Randy_Crawford" title="Randy Crawford">Randy Crawford</a>, <a href="/wiki/David_Sanborn" title="David Sanborn">David Sanborn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gladys_Knight" title="Gladys Knight">Gladys Knight</a>, Leela James, Andre Beeka, Earl Thomas, <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Clarke" title="Stanley Clarke">Stanley Clarke</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_McLaughlin_(musician)" title="John McLaughlin (musician)">John McLaughlin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Hendricks" title="Barbara Hendricks">Barbara Hendricks</a> and <a href="/wiki/George_Duke" title="George Duke">George Duke</a>.<a href="#cite_note-farewells-52">[52]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BB_King_onstage_(Toronto,_2007).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/BB_King_onstage_%28Toronto%2C_2007%29.jpg/170px-BB_King_onstage_%28Toronto%2C_2007%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/BB_King_onstage_%28Toronto%2C_2007%29.jpg/255px-BB_King_onstage_%28Toronto%2C_2007%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/BB_King_onstage_%28Toronto%2C_2007%29.jpg/340px-BB_King_onstage_%28Toronto%2C_2007%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>King at <a href="/wiki/Roy_Thomson_Hall" title="Roy Thomson Hall">Roy Thomson Hall</a>, Toronto, in May 2007</figcaption></figure> In June 2006, King was present at a memorial of his first radio broadcast at the Three Deuces Building in <a href="/wiki/Greenwood,_Mississippi" title="Greenwood, Mississippi">Greenwood</a>, Mississippi, where an official marker of the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Blues_Trail" title="Mississippi Blues Trail">Mississippi Blues Trail</a> was erected. The same month, a groundbreaking was held for a new museum, dedicated to King,<a href="#cite_note-King_museum-53">[53]</a> in <a href="/wiki/Indianola,_Mississippi" title="Indianola, Mississippi">Indianola</a>, Mississippi.<a href="#cite_note-Ross-54">[54]</a> The <a href="/wiki/B.B._King_Museum_and_Delta_Interpretive_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center">B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center</a> opened on September 13, 2008.<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a> In late October 2006, King recorded a concert album and video entitled B.B. King: Live at his B.B. King Blues Clubs in Nashville and Memphis. The video of the four-night production featured his regular B.B. King Blues Band and captured his show as he performed it nightly around the world. Released in 2008, they were his first performances in over a decade to be documented with a live album release.<a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a> In 2007, King played at Eric Clapton's second <a href="/wiki/Crossroads_Guitar_Festival" title="Crossroads Guitar Festival">Crossroads Guitar Festival</a><a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a> and contributed the songs "Goin' Home", to <a href="/wiki/Goin%27_Home:_A_Tribute_to_Fats_Domino" title="Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino">Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino</a> (with <a href="/wiki/Ivan_Neville" title="Ivan Neville">Ivan Neville's DumpstaPhunk</a>)<a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a> and "One Shoe Blues" to <a href="/wiki/Sandra_Boynton" title="Sandra Boynton">Sandra Boynton</a>'s children's album Blue Moo, accompanied by a pair of sock puppets in a music video for the song.<a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a> In the summer of 2008, King played at the <a href="/wiki/Bonnaroo_Music_and_Arts_Festival" class="mw-redirect" title="Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival">Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival</a> in <a href="/wiki/Manchester,_Tennessee" title="Manchester, Tennessee">Manchester, Tennessee</a>, where he was given a <a href="/wiki/Key_to_the_city" class="mw-redirect" title="Key to the city">key to the city</a>.<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a> Also in 2008, he was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/Hollywood_Bowl" title="Hollywood Bowl">Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame</a>.<a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Barack_Obama_singing_in_the_East_Room.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Barack_Obama_singing_in_the_East_Room.jpg/180px-Barack_Obama_singing_in_the_East_Room.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Barack_Obama_singing_in_the_East_Room.jpg/270px-Barack_Obama_singing_in_the_East_Room.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Barack_Obama_singing_in_the_East_Room.jpg/360px-Barack_Obama_singing_in_the_East_Room.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4096" data-file-height="2731" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/President_Obama" class="mw-redirect" title="President Obama">President Obama</a> and King singing "<a href="/wiki/Sweet_Home_Chicago" title="Sweet Home Chicago">Sweet Home Chicago</a>" on February 21, 2012</figcaption></figure> King performed at the <a href="/wiki/Mawazine" title="Mawazine">Mawazine</a> festival in <a href="/wiki/Rabat,_Morocco" class="mw-redirect" title="Rabat, Morocco">Rabat, Morocco</a> on May 27, 2010.<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a> In June 2010, King performed at the Crossroads Guitar Festival with <a href="/wiki/Robert_Cray" title="Robert Cray">Robert Cray</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jimmie_Vaughan" title="Jimmie Vaughan">Jimmie Vaughan</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Eric_Clapton" title="Eric Clapton">Eric Clapton</a>.<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a> He also contributed to <a href="/wiki/Cyndi_Lauper" title="Cyndi Lauper">Cyndi Lauper</a>'s album <a href="/wiki/Memphis_Blues_(album)" title="Memphis Blues (album)">Memphis Blues</a>, which was released on June 22, 2010.<a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a> In 2011, King played at the <a href="/wiki/Glastonbury_Music_Festival" class="mw-redirect" title="Glastonbury Music Festival">Glastonbury Music Festival</a>,<a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a> and in the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Albert_Hall" title="Royal Albert Hall">Royal Albert Hall</a> in London, where he recorded a concert video.<a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a> <a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a> ranked King at No. 6 on its 2011 list of the <a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone%27s_100_greatest_guitarists_of_all_time" class="mw-redirect" title="Rolling Stone's 100 greatest guitarists of all time">100 greatest guitarists of all time</a>.<a href="#cite_note-roll_100G-67">[67]</a> On February 21, 2012, King was among the performers of "In Performance at the <a href="/wiki/White_House" title="White House">White House</a>: Red, White and Blues," during which President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> sang part of "<a href="/wiki/Sweet_Home_Chicago" title="Sweet Home Chicago">Sweet Home Chicago</a>".<a href="#cite_note-barack-68">[68]</a> King recorded for the debut album of rapper and producer <a href="/wiki/Big_K.R.I.T." title="Big K.R.I.T.">Big K.R.I.T.</a>, who also hails from Mississippi.<a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a> On July 5, 2012, King performed a concert at the <a href="/wiki/Byblos_International_Festival" title="Byblos International Festival">Byblos International Festival</a> in Lebanon.<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a> On May 26, 2013, King appeared at the <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans_Jazz_Festival" class="mw-redirect" title="New Orleans Jazz Festival">New Orleans Jazz Festival</a>.<a href="#cite_note-nola-71">[71]</a> 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 canceled. King did not reschedule the shows, and the House of Blues show would be the last before his death in 2015.<a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a><a href="#cite_note-bbking.com_tour-update_2014-10-08-73">[73]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Equipment">Equipment</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=B._B._King&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Equipment">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For more information about King's guitar, see <a href="/wiki/Lucille_(guitar)" title="Lucille (guitar)">Lucille (guitar)</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:32em; ; color: #202122;background-color: #ADD8E6;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing <a href="/wiki/Lucille_(guitar)" title="Lucille (guitar)">Lucille</a>.<a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a> </blockquote> </div> King used equipment characteristic of the different periods he played in. He played guitars made by various manufacturers early in his career. He played a <a href="/wiki/Fender_Esquire" title="Fender Esquire">Fender Esquire</a> on most of his recordings with <a href="/wiki/RPM_Records_(United_States)" title="RPM Records (United States)">RPM Records</a>.<a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a> Later, he was best known for playing variants of the <a href="/wiki/Gibson_ES-355" title="Gibson ES-355">Gibson ES-355</a>. In the September edition 1995 of <a href="/wiki/Vintage_Guitar_(magazine)" title="Vintage Guitar (magazine)">Vintage Guitar</a> magazine, early photos show him playing a <a href="/wiki/Gibson_ES-5" title="Gibson ES-5">Gibson ES-5</a> through a <a href="/wiki/Fender_tweed" title="Fender tweed">Fender tweed</a> amp. In reference to the photo, King stated, "Yes; the old Fender amplifiers were the best that were ever made, in my opinion. They had a good sound and they were durable; guys would throw them in the truck and they'd hold up. They had tubes, and they'd get real hot, but they just had a sound that is hard to put into words. The Fender Twin was great, but I have an old Lab Series amp that isn't being made anymore. I fell in love with it, because its sound is right between the old Fender amps that we used to have and the Fender Twin. It's what I'm using tonight."<a href="#cite_note-auto-76">[76]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:B.B._King_in_2009.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/B.B._King_in_2009.jpg/170px-B.B._King_in_2009.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/B.B._King_in_2009.jpg/255px-B.B._King_in_2009.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/B.B._King_in_2009.jpg/340px-B.B._King_in_2009.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="666" /></a><figcaption>King at the 2009 <a href="/wiki/North_Sea_Jazz_Festival" title="North Sea Jazz Festival">North Sea Jazz Festival</a> </figcaption></figure> He later moved on from the larger Gibson hollow-bodied instruments, which were prone to feedback when played at high volumes, to various semi-hollow models, beginning first with the ES-335 and then a deluxe version called the ES-355, which employed a stereo option.<a href="#cite_note-auto-76">[76]</a> In 1980, <a href="/wiki/Gibson_Guitar_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Gibson Guitar Corporation">Gibson Guitar Corporation</a> launched the B.B. King Lucille model, an ES-355 with stereo options, a varitone selector, and fine tuners (neither of which were actually used by King) and, at King's direct request, no f-holes to further reduce feedback. In 2005, Gibson made a special run of 80 Gibson Lucilles, referred to as the "80th Birthday Lucille", the first prototype of which was given as a birthday gift to King, and which he used thereafter.<a href="#cite_note-77">[77]</a> King used a Lab Series L5 2×12" combo amplifier and used this amplifier for a long time. It was made by Norlin Industries for Gibson in the 1970s and 1980s. Other popular L5 users are <a href="/wiki/Allan_Holdsworth" title="Allan Holdsworth">Allan Holdsworth</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ty_Tabor" title="Ty Tabor">Ty Tabor</a> of <a href="/wiki/King%27s_X" title="King's X">King's X</a>. The L5 has an onboard compressor, parametric equalization, and four inputs. King also used a Fender Twin Reverb.<a href="#cite_note-guitargear-78">[78]</a> He used his signature model strings "Gibson SEG-BBS B.B. King Signature Electric Guitar Strings" with gauges: 10–13–17p–32w–45w–54w and D'Andrea 351 MD SHL CX (medium 0.71mm, tortoiseshell, celluloid) picks.<a href="#cite_note-guitargear-78">[78]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Blues_clubs">Blues clubs</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=B._B._King&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Blues clubs">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BBKINGSignBealeStreet.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/BBKINGSignBealeStreet.JPG/170px-BBKINGSignBealeStreet.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/BBKINGSignBealeStreet.JPG/255px-BBKINGSignBealeStreet.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/BBKINGSignBealeStreet.JPG/340px-BBKINGSignBealeStreet.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="960" /></a><figcaption>Sign outside B.B. King's Blues Club on <a href="/wiki/Beale_Street" title="Beale Street">Beale Street</a>, <a href="/wiki/Memphis,_Tennessee" title="Memphis, Tennessee">Memphis</a> </figcaption></figure> In 1991, <a href="/wiki/Beale_Street" title="Beale Street">Beale Street</a> developer <a href="/wiki/John_A._Elkington" title="John A. Elkington">John Elkington</a> recruited King to <a href="/wiki/Memphis,_Tennessee" title="Memphis, Tennessee">Memphis</a> to open the original B.B. King's Blues Club, and in 1994, a second club was launched at <a href="/wiki/Universal_Citywalk" class="mw-redirect" title="Universal Citywalk">Universal Citywalk</a> in Los Angeles. A third club in New York City's <a href="/wiki/Times_Square" title="Times Square">Times Square</a> 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.<a href="#cite_note-79">[79]</a> Two more clubs opened, at <a href="/wiki/Foxwoods_Casino" class="mw-redirect" title="Foxwoods Casino">Foxwoods Casino</a> in Connecticut in January 2002,<a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a> and in Nashville in 2003.<a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a> Another club opened in <a href="/wiki/Orlando,_Florida" title="Orlando, Florida">Orlando</a> in 2007.<a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a> A club in <a href="/wiki/West_Palm_Beach,_Florida" title="West Palm Beach, Florida">West Palm Beach</a> opened in the fall of 2009<a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a> and an additional one, based in the <a href="/wiki/Mirage_Hotel" class="mw-redirect" title="Mirage Hotel">Mirage Hotel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Strip" title="Las Vegas Strip">Las Vegas</a>, opened in the winter of 2009.<a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a> Another opened in the <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a> <a href="/wiki/French_Quarter" title="French Quarter">French Quarter</a> in 2016.<a href="#cite_note-85">[85]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Television_and_other_appearances">Television and other appearances</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=B._B._King&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Television and other appearances">edit</a>]</div> King made guest appearances in numerous popular television shows including: <a href="/wiki/The_Cosby_Show" title="The Cosby Show">The Cosby Show</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Tonight_Show_Starring_Johnny_Carson" title="The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson">The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Young_and_the_Restless" title="The Young and the Restless">The Young and the Restless</a>, <a href="/wiki/General_Hospital" title="General Hospital">General Hospital</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Fresh_Prince_of_Bel-Air" title="The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air">The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sesame_Street" title="Sesame Street">Sesame Street</a>,<a href="#cite_note-SesameWorkshopNewsletter-86">[86]</a> <a href="/wiki/Married..._with_Children" title="Married... with Children">Married... with Children</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sanford_and_Son" title="Sanford and Son">Sanford and Son</a> and <a href="/wiki/Touched_by_an_Angel" title="Touched by an Angel">Touched by an Angel</a>. From the mid-1980s until the mid-1990s, King appeared in multiple advertisements for <a href="/wiki/McDonald%27s" title="McDonald's">McDonald's</a>.<a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a><a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a> In the early 2000s he also appeared in a campaign for <a href="/wiki/Burger_King" title="Burger King">Burger King</a>.<a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a> In 2000, the children's show <a href="/wiki/Between_the_Lions" title="Between the Lions">Between the Lions</a> featured a singing character named "B.B. the King of Beasts", modeled on the real King.<a href="#cite_note-90">[90]</a> B.B. King: The Life of Riley, a feature documentary about King narrated by <a href="/wiki/Morgan_Freeman" title="Morgan Freeman">Morgan Freeman</a> and directed by <a href="/wiki/Jon_Brewer" title="Jon Brewer">Jon Brewer</a>, was released on October 15, 2012.<a href="#cite_note-91">[91]</a> King's performance at the 1969 <a href="/wiki/Harlem_Cultural_Festival" title="Harlem Cultural Festival">Harlem Cultural Festival</a><a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a> appears in the 2021 music documentary <a href="/wiki/Summer_of_Soul" title="Summer of Soul">Summer of Soul</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=B._B._King&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Personal life">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Publicity_photo_of_B.B._King._-_j9602118s_files_7f3e5875-55ee-4389-8eb0-53e6b59f1df3_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Publicity_photo_of_B.B._King._-_j9602118s_files_7f3e5875-55ee-4389-8eb0-53e6b59f1df3_%28cropped%29.jpg/170px-Publicity_photo_of_B.B._King._-_j9602118s_files_7f3e5875-55ee-4389-8eb0-53e6b59f1df3_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Publicity_photo_of_B.B._King._-_j9602118s_files_7f3e5875-55ee-4389-8eb0-53e6b59f1df3_%28cropped%29.jpg/255px-Publicity_photo_of_B.B._King._-_j9602118s_files_7f3e5875-55ee-4389-8eb0-53e6b59f1df3_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Publicity_photo_of_B.B._King._-_j9602118s_files_7f3e5875-55ee-4389-8eb0-53e6b59f1df3_%28cropped%29.jpg/340px-Publicity_photo_of_B.B._King._-_j9602118s_files_7f3e5875-55ee-4389-8eb0-53e6b59f1df3_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="624" data-file-height="832" /></a><figcaption>Early publicity photo of King</figcaption></figure> 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.<a href="#cite_note-jazz-14">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-93">[93]</a> It is reported that he fathered 15 children with several women.<a href="#cite_note-jazz-14">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-Encyclopedia_of_the_Blues-12">[12]</a> After his death, three more have come forward, claiming King as their father as well.<a href="#cite_note-HR-94">[94]</a> Though neither of his marriages produced children, and biographer Charles Sawyer wrote that doctors found his sperm count too low to conceive children,<a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a> 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.<a href="#cite_note-HR-94">[94]</a> 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.<a href="#cite_note-HR-94">[94]</a> King was an FAA-certified private pilot and learned to fly in 1963 at what was then <a href="/wiki/Lansing_Municipal_Airport" title="Lansing Municipal Airport">Chicago Hammond Airport</a> in <a href="/wiki/Lansing,_Illinois" title="Lansing, Illinois">Lansing, Illinois</a>.<a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a><a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a> He frequently flew to gigs, but in 1995 his insurance company and manager asked him to fly only with another certified pilot. As a result, he stopped flying around the age of 70.<a href="#cite_note-Reuters/Billboard_2007-06-29-98">[98]</a> King's favorite singer was <a href="/wiki/Frank_Sinatra" title="Frank Sinatra">Frank Sinatra</a>. In his autobiography, he spoke about how he was a "Sinatra nut" and how he went to bed every night listening to Sinatra's classic album <a href="/wiki/In_the_Wee_Small_Hours" title="In the Wee Small Hours">In the Wee Small Hours</a>. During the 1960s, Sinatra had arranged for King to play at the main clubs in Las Vegas. He credited Sinatra for opening doors to black entertainers who were not given the chance to play in "white-dominated" venues.<a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Philanthropy_and_notable_campaigns">Philanthropy and notable campaigns</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=B._B._King&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Philanthropy and notable campaigns">edit</a>]</div> In September 1970, King recorded <a href="/wiki/Live_in_Cook_County_Jail" title="Live in Cook County Jail">Live in Cook County Jail</a>, during a time in which issues of racism <a href="#cite_note-Back-100">[100]</a> 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.<a href="#cite_note-Back-100">[100]</a> In addition to prison reform, King also wanted to use prison performances as a way to preserve music and songs in a similar way that <a href="/wiki/Alan_Lomax" title="Alan Lomax">Alan Lomax</a> did.<a href="#cite_note-101">[101]</a> In 2002, King signed on as an official supporter of <a href="/wiki/Little_Kids_Rock" class="mw-redirect" title="Little Kids Rock">Little Kids Rock</a>, a nonprofit organization that provides free musical instruments and instruction to children in underprivileged public schools throughout the United States. He sat on the organization's honorary board of directors.<a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a> Diagnosed with <a href="/wiki/Type_2_diabetes" title="Type 2 diabetes">diabetes</a> in 1990,<a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a> King was a high-profile spokesman in the fight against the disease.<a href="#cite_note-farewells-52">[52]</a><a href="#cite_note-104">[104]</a> He appeared in several television commercials for <a href="/wiki/OneTouch_Ultra" title="OneTouch Ultra">OneTouch Ultra</a>, a blood glucose monitoring device, beginning in the early 2000s. <a href="/wiki/American_Idol" title="American Idol">American Idol</a> contestant <a href="/wiki/Crystal_Bowersox" title="Crystal Bowersox">Crystal Bowersox</a>, who was diagnosed with diabetes at age six, would co-star with King in later commercials.<a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a><a href="#cite_note-106">[106]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Death_and_funeral">Death and funeral</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=B._B._King&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Death and funeral">edit</a>]</div> The last eight shows of King's 2014 tour were canceled because of health problems caused by complications from <a href="/wiki/High_blood_pressure" class="mw-redirect" title="High blood pressure">high blood pressure</a> and diabetes.<a href="#cite_note-bbking.com_tour-update_2014-10-08-73">[73]</a><a href="#cite_note-OfficialCOD-107">[107]</a><a href="#cite_note-cnn._B.B.-108">[108]</a> On May 14, 2015, at the age of 89,<a href="#cite_note-Defining-21">[21]</a> he died in his sleep from <a href="/wiki/Vascular_dementia" title="Vascular dementia">vascular dementia</a> caused by a series of small <a href="/wiki/Stroke" title="Stroke">strokes</a> as a consequence of his <a href="/wiki/Type_2_diabetes" title="Type 2 diabetes">type 2 diabetes</a>.<a href="#cite_note-109">[109]</a> Two of his daughters alleged that King was deliberately poisoned by two associates trying to induce <a href="/wiki/Diabetic_shock" class="mw-redirect" title="Diabetic shock">diabetic shock</a>;<a href="#cite_note-Poison-110">[110]</a> an autopsy showed no evidence of such.<a href="#cite_note-OfficialCOD-107">[107]</a><a href="#cite_note-111">[111]</a> King's body was flown to Memphis on May 27, 2015. A funeral procession went down <a href="/wiki/Beale_Street" title="Beale Street">Beale Street</a>, with a brass band marching in front of the hearse while playing "<a href="/wiki/When_the_Saints_Go_Marching_In" title="When the Saints Go Marching In">When the Saints Go Marching In</a>". Thousands lined the streets to pay their last respects. His body was then driven down <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_61" title="U.S. Route 61">Route 61</a> to his hometown of Indianola, Mississippi.<a href="#cite_note-112">[112]</a> He was <a href="/wiki/Lying_in_repose" title="Lying in repose">laid in repose</a> at the <a href="/wiki/B.B._King_Museum_and_Delta_Interpretive_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center">B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center</a>, in Indianola, for people to view his open casket.<a href="#cite_note-113">[113]</a><a href="#cite_note-news5-114">[114]</a> The funeral took place at the Bell Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Indianola, on May 30.<a href="#cite_note-115">[115]</a><a href="#cite_note-116">[116]</a><a href="#cite_note-117">[117]</a> He was buried at the <a href="/wiki/B.B._King_Museum" title="B.B. King Museum">B.B. King Museum</a>.<a href="#cite_note-news5-114">[114]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discography">Discography</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=B._B._King&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Discography">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/B.B._King_discography" class="mw-redirect" title="B.B. King discography">B.B. King discography</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Studio_albums">Studio albums</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=B._B._King&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Studio albums">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Singin%27_the_Blues" title="Singin' the Blues">Singin' the Blues</a> (1957)<a href="#cite_note-118">[118]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Blues_(B.B._King_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Blues (B.B. King album)">The Blues</a> (1958)</li> <li>B.B. King Wails (1959)</li> <li>King of the Blues (1960)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sings_Spirituals" title="Sings Spirituals">Sings Spirituals</a> (1960)</li> <li>The Great B.B. King (1960)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/My_Kind_of_Blues_(B.B._King_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="My Kind of Blues (B.B. King album)">My Kind of Blues</a> (1961)</li> <li>Blues for Me (1961)</li> <li>Blues in My Heart (1962)</li> <li>Easy Listening Blues (1962)</li> <li>B.B. King (1963)</li> <li>Mr. Blues (1963)</li> <li>Confessin' the Blues (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blues_on_Top_of_Blues" title="Blues on Top of Blues">Blues on Top of Blues</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucille_(album)" title="Lucille (album)">Lucille</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Live_%26_Well_(B.B._King_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="Live & Well (B.B. King album)">Live & Well</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Completely_Well" title="Completely Well">Completely Well</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indianola_Mississippi_Seeds" title="Indianola Mississippi Seeds">Indianola Mississippi Seeds</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/B.B._King_in_London" title="B.B. King in London">B.B. King in London</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/L.A._Midnight" title="L.A. Midnight">L.A. Midnight</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guess_Who_(B.B._King_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="Guess Who (B.B. King album)">Guess Who</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/To_Know_You_Is_to_Love_You_(album)" title="To Know You Is to Love You (album)">To Know You Is to Love You</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucille_Talks_Back" title="Lucille Talks Back">Lucille Talks Back</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_Size_(B.B._King_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="King Size (B.B. King album)">King Size</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midnight_Believer" title="Midnight Believer">Midnight Believer</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Take_It_Home_(B.B._King_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="Take It Home (B.B. King album)">Take It Home</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/There_Must_Be_a_Better_World_Somewhere" title="There Must Be a Better World Somewhere">There Must Be a Better World Somewhere</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Love_Me_Tender_(B.B._King_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="Love Me Tender (B.B. King album)">Love Me Tender</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blues_%27N%27_Jazz" title="Blues 'N' Jazz">Blues 'N' Jazz</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Six_Silver_Strings" title="Six Silver Strings">Six Silver Strings</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_of_the_Blues:_1989" title="King of the Blues: 1989">King of the Blues: 1989</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/There_Is_Always_One_More_Time" title="There Is Always One More Time">There Is Always One More Time</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blues_Summit" title="Blues Summit">Blues Summit</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucille_%26_Friends" title="Lucille & Friends">Lucille & Friends</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deuces_Wild_(B.B._King_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="Deuces Wild (B.B. King album)">Deuces Wild</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blues_on_the_Bayou" title="Blues on the Bayou">Blues on the Bayou</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Let_the_Good_Times_Roll_(album)" title="Let the Good Times Roll (album)">Let the Good Times Roll</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Makin%27_Love_Is_Good_for_You" title="Makin' Love Is Good for You">Makin' Love Is Good for You</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Riding_with_the_King_(B.B._King_and_Eric_Clapton_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="Riding with the King (B.B. King and Eric Clapton album)">Riding with the King</a> (2000, with Eric Clapton)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Christmas_Celebration_of_Hope" title="A Christmas Celebration of Hope">A Christmas Celebration of Hope</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reflections_(B.B._King_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="Reflections (B.B. King album)">Reflections</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/B.B._King_%26_Friends:_80" class="mw-redirect" title="B.B. King & Friends: 80">B.B. King & Friends: 80</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/One_Kind_Favor" title="One Kind Favor">One Kind Favor</a> (2008)</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Accolades">Accolades</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=B._B._King&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Accolades">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Awards_and_nominations">Awards and nominations</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=B._B._King&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Awards and nominations">edit</a>]</div> Years reflect the year in which the Grammy was awarded, for music released in the previous year. <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Grammy_Awards" title="Grammy Awards">Grammy Awards</a> </th></tr> <tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Category </th> <th>Work </th> <th>Result </th></tr> <tr> <td>1970 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Best_Male_R%26B_Vocal_Performance" class="mw-redirect" title="Best Male R&B Vocal Performance">Best Male R&B Vocal Performance</a> </td> <td>"<a href="/wiki/The_Thrill_Is_Gone" title="The Thrill Is Gone">The Thrill Is Gone</a>" </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td></tr> <tr> <td>1981 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Best_R%26B_Instrumental_Performance" class="mw-redirect" title="Best R&B Instrumental Performance">Best R&B Instrumental Performance</a> </td> <td>"When I'm Wrong" </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td>1982 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Best_Ethnic_or_Traditional_Recording" class="mw-redirect" title="Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording">Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording</a> </td> <td>"<a href="/wiki/There_Must_Be_a_Better_World_Somewhere" title="There Must Be a Better World Somewhere">There Must Be a Better World Somewhere</a>" </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td></tr> <tr> <td>1983 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_R%26B_Performance_by_a_Duo_or_Group_with_Vocals" title="Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals">Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals</a> </td> <td>"Street Life" </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td>1984 </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Best_Traditional_Blues_Recording" class="mw-redirect" title="Best Traditional Blues Recording">Best Traditional Blues Recording</a> </td> <td>Blues 'n Jazz </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td></tr> <tr> <td>1986 </td> <td>My Guitar Sings the Blues </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td></tr> <tr> <td>1991 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Live_at_San_Quentin_(B.B._King_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="Live at San Quentin (B.B. King album)">Live at San Quentin</a> </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td></tr> <tr> <td>1991 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Country_Collaboration_with_Vocals" title="Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals">Best Country Collaboration with Vocals</a> </td> <td>"Waiting on the Light to Change" </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td>1992 </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Best_Traditional_Blues_Album" class="mw-redirect" title="Best Traditional Blues Album">Best Traditional Blues Album</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Live_at_the_Apollo_(B._B._King_album)" title="Live at the Apollo (B. B. King album)">Live at the Apollo</a> </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td></tr> <tr> <td>1994 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Blues_Summit" title="Blues Summit">Blues Summit</a> </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td></tr> <tr> <td>1995 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Country_Collaboration_with_Vocals" title="Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals">Best Country Collaboration with Vocals</a> </td> <td>"Patches" </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td>1997 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Best_Rock_Instrumental_Performance" class="mw-redirect" title="Best Rock Instrumental Performance">Best Rock Instrumental Performance</a> </td> <td>"SRV Shuffle" </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td></tr> <tr> <td>1999 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Contemporary_Blues_Album" title="Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album">Best Contemporary Blues Album</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Deuces_Wild_(B._B._King_album)" title="Deuces Wild (B. B. King album)">Deuces Wild</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td>2000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/42nd_Annual_Grammy_Awards#Blues" title="42nd Annual Grammy Awards">Best Traditional Blues Album</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Blues_on_the_Bayou" title="Blues on the Bayou">Blues on the Bayou</a> </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td></tr> <tr> <td>2001 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/43rd_Annual_Grammy_Awards#Blues" title="43rd Annual Grammy Awards">Best Traditional Blues Album</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Riding_with_the_King_(B.B._King_and_Eric_Clapton_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="Riding with the King (B.B. King and Eric Clapton album)">Riding with the King</a> </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td></tr> <tr> <td>2001 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Best_Pop_Collaboration_with_Vocals" class="mw-redirect" title="Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals">Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals</a> </td> <td>"Is You Is or Is You Ain't (My Baby)" </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td></tr> <tr> <td>2003 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/45th_Annual_Grammy_Awards#Blues" title="45th Annual Grammy Awards">Best Traditional Blues Album</a> </td> <td>A Christmas Celebration of Hope </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td></tr> <tr> <td>2003 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Best_Pop_Instrumental_Performance" class="mw-redirect" title="Best Pop Instrumental Performance">Best Pop Instrumental Performance</a> </td> <td>"Auld Lang Syne" </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td></tr> <tr> <td>2005 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Traditional_R%26B_Performance" title="Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Performance">Best Traditional R&B Performance</a> </td> <td>"Sinner's Prayer" (with <a href="/wiki/Ray_Charles" title="Ray Charles">Ray Charles</a>) </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td>2006 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/48th_Annual_Grammy_Awards#Blues" title="48th Annual Grammy Awards">Best Traditional Blues Album</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/B._B._King_%26_Friends:_80" title="B. B. King & Friends: 80">B. B. King & Friends: 80</a> </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td></tr> <tr> <td>2009 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/51st_Annual_Grammy_Awards#Blues" title="51st Annual Grammy Awards">Best Traditional Blues Album</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/One_Kind_Favor" title="One Kind Favor">One Kind Favor</a> </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td></tr></tbody></table> Other awards <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Association </th> <th>Category </th> <th>Work </th> <th>Result </th></tr> <tr> <td>1995 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Country_Music_Association" title="Country Music Association">Country Music Association</a> </td> <td>Album of the Year </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rhythm,_Country_and_Blues" title="Rhythm, Country and Blues">Rhythm, Country and Blues</a> ("Patches" with <a href="/wiki/George_Jones" title="George Jones">George Jones</a>) </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td>2002 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/NAACP_Image_Awards" title="NAACP Image Awards">NAACP Image Awards</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/NAACP_Image_Award_for_Outstanding_Performance_in_a_Youth/Children%27s_Series_or_Special" class="mw-redirect" title="NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Performance in a Youth/Children's Series or Special">Outstanding Performance in a Youth/Children's Series or Special</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sesame_Street" title="Sesame Street">Sesame Street</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:B.B._King_Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/B.B._King_Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom.jpg/170px-B.B._King_Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="117" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/B.B._King_Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom.jpg/255px-B.B._King_Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/B.B._King_Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom.jpg/340px-B.B._King_Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom.jpg 2x" data-file-width="514" data-file-height="355" /></a><figcaption>King receiving the <a href="/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom" title="Presidential Medal of Freedom">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> from <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a>, December 2006</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Additional_honors">Additional honors</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=B._B._King&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Additional honors">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from <a href="/wiki/Tougaloo_College" title="Tougaloo College">Tougaloo College</a> (1973)<a href="#cite_note-119">[119]</a></li> <li>Honorary Doctor of Music by <a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a> (1977)<a href="#cite_note-120">[120]</a></li> <li>Inducted into the <a href="/wiki/Blues_Hall_of_Fame" title="Blues Hall of Fame">Blues Hall of Fame</a> (1980)<a href="#cite_note-121">[121]</a></li> <li>Honorary Doctorate of Music from <a href="/wiki/Berklee_College_of_Music" title="Berklee College of Music">Berklee College of Music</a> (1985)<a href="#cite_note-122">[122]</a></li> <li>Inducted into the <a href="/wiki/Rock_%26_Roll_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="Rock & Roll Hall of Fame">Rock & Roll Hall of Fame</a> (1987)<a href="#cite_note-123">[123]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grammy_Lifetime_Achievement_Award" title="Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award">Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award</a> (1987)<a href="#cite_note-124">[124]</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/National_Medal_of_Arts" title="National Medal of Arts">National Medal of Arts</a> (1990)<a href="#cite_note-125">[125]</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/National_Heritage_Fellowship" title="National Heritage Fellowship">National Heritage Fellowship</a> from the <a href="/wiki/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts" title="National Endowment for the Arts">NEA</a> (1991)<a href="#cite_note-126">[126]</a></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BB_King_pick.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/BB_King_pick.jpg" decoding="async" width="106" height="106" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="106" data-file-height="106" /></a><figcaption>Commemorative guitar <a href="/wiki/Plectrum" title="Plectrum">pick</a> honoring "B.B. King Day" in Portland, Maine</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Kennedy_Center_Honors" title="Kennedy Center Honors">Kennedy Center Honors</a> – given to recognize "the lifelong accomplishments and extraordinary talents of our nation's most prestigious artists" (1995)<a href="#cite_note-127">[127]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grammy_Hall_of_Fame_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammy Hall of Fame Award">Grammy Hall of Fame Award</a> for "The Thrill is Gone" – given to recordings that are at least 25 years old and that have "qualitative or historical significance" (1998)<a href="#cite_note-128">[128]</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a> awarded him the <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Living_Legend" title="Library of Congress Living Legend">Living Legend Medal</a> for his lifetime of contributions to America's diverse cultural heritage (2000)<a href="#cite_note-129">[129]</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Royal_Swedish_Academy_of_Music" title="Royal Swedish Academy of Music">Royal Swedish Academy of Music</a> awarded him the <a href="/wiki/Polar_Music_Prize" title="Polar Music Prize">Polar Music Prize</a> for his "significant contributions to the blues" (2004)<a href="#cite_note-Polar_Music_Prize-47">[47]</a></li> <li>The Golden Plate Award of the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Achievement" class="mw-redirect" title="American Academy of Achievement">American Academy of Achievement</a> (2004)<a href="#cite_note-130">[130]</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom" title="Presidential Medal of Freedom">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> awarded by President <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> on December 15 (2006)<a href="#cite_note-131">[131]</a></li> <li>An <a href="/wiki/Doctorate" title="Doctorate">honorary doctorate</a> in music by <a href="/wiki/Brown_University" title="Brown University">Brown University</a> (2007)<a href="#cite_note-132">[132]</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_the_City" title="Freedom of the City">keys to the city</a> of <a href="/wiki/Portland,_Maine" title="Portland, Maine">Portland, Maine</a> (2008)<a href="#cite_note-133">[133]</a></li> <li>A <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Blues_Trail" title="Mississippi Blues Trail">Mississippi Blues Trail</a> marker was added for King to commemorate his birthplace (2008)<a href="#cite_note-134">[134]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a> named King No. 3 on its list of the 10 best electric guitarists (2009)<a href="#cite_note-135">[135]</a></li> <li>King was awarded the MMP Music Award and inducted into the MMP Hall of Fame by the Mississippi Music Project (2018)<a href="#cite_note-136">[136]</a></li> <li>A <a href="/wiki/Google_Doodle" title="Google Doodle">Google Doodle</a> celebrated what would have been King's 94th birthday (2019)<a href="#cite_note-137">[137]</a></li> <li>A King Homecoming Festival is held in <a href="/wiki/Indianola,_Mississippi" title="Indianola, Mississippi">Indianola, Mississippi</a> during the first week in June every year<a href="#cite_note-138">[138]</a></li> <li>Rolling Stone named King the 8th greatest guitarist of all time in 2023.<a href="#cite_note-139">[139]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=B._B._King&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-image{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-link{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em;vertical-align:middle}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .portalleft{clear:left;float:left;margin:0.5em 1em 0.5em 0}.mw-parser-output .portalright{clear:right;float:right;margin:0.5em 0 0.5em 1em}}</style><ul role="navigation" aria-label="Portals" class="noprint portalbox portalborder portalright"> <li class="portalbox-entry"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Guit_Blues.JPG/28px-Guit_Blues.JPG" decoding="async" width="28" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Guit_Blues.JPG/41px-Guit_Blues.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Guit_Blues.JPG/55px-Guit_Blues.JPG 2x" data-file-width="159" data-file-height="161" /><a href="/wiki/Portal:Blues" title="Portal:Blues">Blues portal</a></li><li class="portalbox-entry"><img alt="flag" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Flag_of_Mississippi.svg/32px-Flag_of_Mississippi.svg.png" decoding="async" width="32" height="19" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Flag_of_Mississippi.svg/48px-Flag_of_Mississippi.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Flag_of_Mississippi.svg/64px-Flag_of_Mississippi.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="720" /><a href="/wiki/Portal:Mississippi" title="Portal:Mississippi">Mississippi portal</a></li><li class="portalbox-entry"><img alt="flag" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/32px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="32" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/48px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/64px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /><a href="/wiki/Portal:United_States" title="Portal:United States">United States portal</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/African_Americans_in_Mississippi" title="African Americans in Mississippi">African Americans in Mississippi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B.B._King%27s_Bluesville" title="B.B. 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New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780802158055" title="Special:BookSources/9780802158055"><bdi>9780802158055</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1261767849">1261767849</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=King+of+the+Blues%3A+the+Rise+and+Reign+of+B.B.+King&rft.place=New+York&rft.edition=First&rft.pub=Atlantic+Monthly+Press&rft.date=2021&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F1261767849&rft.isbn=9780802158055&rft.aulast=De+Vis%C3%A9&rft.aufirst=Daniel&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AB.+B.+King" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSawyer2022" class="citation book cs1">Sawyer, Charles (2022). B.B. King: From Indianola to Icon (First ed.). Atglen, PA: Schiffer Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780764363856" title="Special:BookSources/9780764363856"><bdi>9780764363856</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=B.B.+King%3A+From+Indianola+to+Icon&rft.place=Atglen%2C+PA&rft.edition=First&rft.pub=Schiffer+Books&rft.date=2022&rft.isbn=9780764363856&rft.aulast=Sawyer&rft.aufirst=Charles&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AB.+B.+King" class="Z3988"></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=B._B._King&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="clear: right; float:right;margin:0 0 1.5em 1.5em"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:115%">External videos</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><img alt="video icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/24px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/32px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/bb-king">Oral History, B.B. King reflects on his greatest musical influences. 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King album)">My Kind of Blues</a></li> <li>1968: <a href="/wiki/Blues_on_Top_of_Blues" title="Blues on Top of Blues">Blues on Top of Blues</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucille_(album)" title="Lucille (album)">Lucille</a></li> <li>1969: <a href="/wiki/Completely_Well" title="Completely Well">Completely Well</a></li> <li>1970: <a href="/wiki/Indianola_Mississippi_Seeds" title="Indianola Mississippi Seeds">Indianola Mississippi Seeds</a></li> <li>1971: <a href="/wiki/B.B._King_in_London" title="B.B. King in London">B.B. King in London</a></li> <li>1972: <a href="/wiki/L.A._Midnight" title="L.A. Midnight">L.A. Midnight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guess_Who_(B._B._King_album)" title="Guess Who (B. B. King album)">Guess Who</a></li> <li>1973: <a href="/wiki/To_Know_You_Is_to_Love_You_(album)" title="To Know You Is to Love You (album)">To Know You Is to Love You</a></li> <li>1974: <a href="/wiki/Friends_(B._B._King_album)" title="Friends (B. B. King album)">Friends</a></li> <li>1975: <a href="/wiki/Lucille_Talks_Back" title="Lucille Talks Back">Lucille Talks Back</a></li> <li>1977: <a href="/wiki/King_Size_(B._B._King_album)" title="King Size (B. B. King album)">King Size</a></li> <li>1978: <a href="/wiki/Midnight_Believer" title="Midnight Believer">Midnight Believer</a></li> <li>1979: <a href="/wiki/Take_It_Home_(B._B._King_album)" title="Take It Home (B. B. King album)">Take It Home</a></li> <li>1981: <a href="/wiki/There_Must_Be_a_Better_World_Somewhere" title="There Must Be a Better World Somewhere">There Must Be a Better World Somewhere</a></li> <li>1982: <a href="/wiki/Love_Me_Tender_(B._B._King_album)" title="Love Me Tender (B. B. King album)">Love Me Tender</a></li> <li>1983: <a href="/wiki/Blues_%27N%27_Jazz" title="Blues 'N' Jazz">Blues 'N' Jazz</a></li> <li>1985: <a href="/wiki/Six_Silver_Strings" title="Six Silver Strings">Six Silver Strings</a></li> <li>1988: <a href="/wiki/King_of_the_Blues:_1989" title="King of the Blues: 1989">King of the Blues: 1989</a></li> <li>1991: <a href="/wiki/There_Is_Always_One_More_Time" title="There Is Always One More Time">There Is Always One More Time</a></li> <li>1993: <a href="/wiki/Blues_Summit" title="Blues Summit">Blues Summit</a></li> <li>1994: <a href="/wiki/Heart_to_Heart_(Diane_Schuur_and_B._B._King_album)" title="Heart to Heart (Diane Schuur and B. B. King album)">Heart to Heart</a></li> <li>1997: <a href="/wiki/Deuces_Wild_(B._B._King_album)" title="Deuces Wild (B. B. King album)">Deuces Wild</a></li> <li>1998: <a href="/wiki/Blues_on_the_Bayou" title="Blues on the Bayou">Blues on the Bayou</a></li> <li>1999: <a href="/wiki/Let_the_Good_Times_Roll_(album)" title="Let the Good Times Roll (album)">Let the Good Times Roll</a></li> <li>2000: <a href="/wiki/Riding_with_the_King_(B._B._King_and_Eric_Clapton_album)" title="Riding with the King (B. B. King and Eric Clapton album)">Riding with the King</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Makin%27_Love_Is_Good_for_You" title="Makin' Love Is Good for You">Makin' Love Is Good for You</a></li> <li>2003: <a href="/wiki/Reflections_(B._B._King_album)" title="Reflections (B. B. King album)">Reflections</a></li> <li>2005: <a href="/wiki/B._B._King_%26_Friends:_80" title="B. B. King & Friends: 80">B. B. King & Friends: 80</a></li> <li>2008: <a href="/wiki/One_Kind_Favor" title="One Kind Favor">One Kind Favor</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Live albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>1965: <a href="/wiki/Live_at_the_Regal" title="Live at the Regal">Live at the Regal</a></li> <li>1967: <a href="/wiki/Blues_Is_King" title="Blues Is King">Blues Is King</a></li> <li>1969: <a href="/wiki/Live_%26_Well_(B._B._King_album)" title="Live & Well (B. B. King album)">Live & Well</a></li> <li>1971: <a href="/wiki/Live_in_Cook_County_Jail" title="Live in Cook County Jail">Live in Cook County Jail</a></li> <li>1974: <a href="/wiki/Together_for_the_First_Time..._Live" title="Together for the First Time... Live">Together for the First Time... Live</a></li> <li>1976: <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Bland_and_B._B._King_Together_Again...Live" title="Bobby Bland and B. B. King Together Again...Live">Bobby Bland and B. B. King Together Again...Live</a></li> <li>1980: <a href="/wiki/Now_Appearing_at_Ole_Miss" title="Now Appearing at Ole Miss">Now Appearing at Ole Miss</a></li> <li>1990: <a href="/wiki/Live_at_San_Quentin_(B._B._King_album)" title="Live at San Quentin (B. B. King album)">Live at San Quentin</a></li> <li>1991: <a href="/wiki/Live_at_the_Apollo_(B._B._King_album)" title="Live at the Apollo (B. B. King album)">Live at the Apollo</a></li> <li>1999: <a href="/wiki/Live_in_Japan_(B._B._King_album)" title="Live in Japan (B. B. King album)">Live in Japan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Notable compilations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>1957: <a href="/wiki/Singin%27_the_Blues" title="Singin' the Blues">Singin' the Blues</a></li> <li>1958: <a href="/wiki/The_Blues_(B._B._King_album)" title="The Blues (B. B. King album)">The Blues</a></li> <li>1968: <a href="/wiki/His_Best_%E2%80%93_The_Electric_B._B._King" class="mw-redirect" title="His Best – The Electric B. B. King">His Best – The Electric B. B. King</a></li> <li>1983: <a href="/wiki/Why_I_Sing_the_Blues" title="Why I Sing the Blues">Why I Sing the Blues</a></li> <li>1992: <a href="/wiki/King_of_the_Blues" title="King of the Blues">King of the Blues</a></li> <li>1995: <a href="/wiki/Lucille_%26_Friends" title="Lucille & Friends">Lucille & Friends</a></li> <li>1999: <a href="/wiki/His_Definitive_Greatest_Hits" title="His Definitive Greatest Hits">His Definitive Greatest Hits</a></li> <li>2005: <a href="/wiki/The_Ultimate_Collection_(B._B._King_album)" title="The Ultimate Collection (B. B. King album)">The Ultimate Collection</a></li> <li>2007: <a href="/wiki/The_Best_of_the_Early_Years_(B._B._King_album)" title="The Best of the Early Years (B. B. King album)">The Best of the Early Years</a></li> <li>2012: <a href="/wiki/Ladies_and_Gentlemen..._Mr._B.B._King" title="Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. B.B. King">Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. B.B. King</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Singles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>1951: "<a href="/wiki/3_O%27Clock_Blues" title="3 O'Clock Blues">3 O'Clock Blues</a>"</li> <li>1952: "<a href="/wiki/Bottle_Up_and_Go" title="Bottle Up and Go">Shake It Up and Go</a>"</li> <li>1952: "<a href="/wiki/You_Know_I_Love_You_(B._B._King_song)" title="You Know I Love You (B. B. King song)">You Know I Love You</a></li> <li>1955: "<a href="/wiki/Every_Day_I_Have_the_Blues" title="Every Day I Have the Blues">Every Day I Have the Blues</a>"</li> <li>1956: "<a href="/wiki/Black_Angel_Blues" title="Black Angel Blues">Sweet Little Angel</a>"</li> <li>1959: "<a href="/wiki/Sugar_Mama_(song)" title="Sugar Mama (song)">Sugar Mama</a>"</li> <li>1961: "<a href="/wiki/Worried_Life_Blues" title="Worried Life Blues">Someday Baby</a>"</li> <li>1962: "<a href="/wiki/Goin%27_Down_Slow" title="Goin' Down Slow">Goin' Down Slow</a>"</li> <li>1963: "<a href="/wiki/Trouble_in_Mind_(song)" title="Trouble in Mind (song)">Trouble in Mind</a>"</li> <li>1964: "<a href="/wiki/How_Blue_Can_You_Get" title="How Blue Can You Get">How Blue Can You Get</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Rock_Me_Baby_(song)" title="Rock Me Baby (song)">Rock Me Baby</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Please_Send_Me_Someone_to_Love" title="Please Send Me Someone to Love">Please Send Me Someone to Love</a>"</li> <li>1965: "<a href="/wiki/Blue_Shadows" title="Blue Shadows">Blue Shadows</a>"</li> <li>1966: "<a href="/wiki/Eyesight_to_the_Blind" title="Eyesight to the Blind">Eyesight to the Blind</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Ain%27t_That_Just_Like_a_Woman_(They%27ll_Do_It_Every_Time)" title="Ain't That Just Like a Woman (They'll Do It Every Time)">Just Like a Woman</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Five_Long_Years" title="Five Long Years">Five Long Years</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Ain%27t_Nobody%27s_Business" title="Ain't Nobody's Business">Ain't Nobody's Business</a>"</li> <li>1970: "<a href="/wiki/The_Thrill_Is_Gone" title="The Thrill Is Gone">The Thrill Is Gone</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Worried_Life_Blues" title="Worried Life Blues">Worried Life</a>"</li> <li>1976: "<a href="/wiki/Let_the_Good_Times_Roll_(Louis_Jordan_song)" title="Let the Good Times Roll (Louis Jordan song)">Let the Good Times Roll</a>"</li> <li>1985: "<a href="/wiki/Big_Boss_Man_(song)" title="Big Boss Man (song)">Big Boss Man</a>"</li> <li>1988: "<a href="/wiki/When_Love_Comes_to_Town" title="When Love Comes to Town">When Love Comes to Town</a>"</li> <li>1992: "<a href="/wiki/Since_I_Met_You_Baby_(song)" title="Since I Met You Baby (song)">Since I Met You Baby</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other songs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>1961: "<a href="/wiki/Driving_Wheel" title="Driving Wheel">Driving Wheel</a></li> <li>1974: "<a href="/wiki/Black_Night_(Charles_Brown_song)" title="Black Night (Charles Brown song)">Black Night</a>"</li> <li>1977: "<a href="/wiki/Don%27t_You_Lie_to_Me" title="Don't You Lie to Me">Don't You Lie to Me</a>"</li> <li>1985: "<a href="/wiki/In_the_Midnight_Hour" title="In the Midnight Hour">In the Midnight Hour</a>"</li> <li>1995: "<a href="/wiki/You_Shook_Me" title="You Shook Me">You Shook Me</a>"</li> <li>1998: "<a href="/wiki/Mean_Old_World" title="Mean Old World">Mean Ole' World</a>"</li> <li>1999: "<a href="/wiki/Ain%27t_Nobody_Here_but_Us_Chickens" title="Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens">Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Is_You_Is_or_Is_You_Ain%27t_My_Baby" title="Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby">Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Choo_Choo_Ch%27Boogie" title="Choo Choo Ch'Boogie">Choo Choo Ch'Boogie</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Buzz_Me" title="Buzz Me">Buzz Me</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Saturday_Night_Fish_Fry" title="Saturday Night Fish Fry">Saturday Night Fish Fry</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Nobody_Knows_You_When_You%27re_Down_and_Out" title="Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out">Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Early_in_the_Mornin%27_(Louis_Jordan_song)" title="Early in the Mornin' (Louis Jordan song)">Early in the Mornin'</a>"</li> <li>2000: "<a href="/wiki/Hold_On,_I%27m_Comin%27_(song)" title="Hold On, I'm Comin' (song)">Hold On, I'm Comin'</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Come_Rain_or_Come_Shine" title="Come Rain or Come Shine">Come Rain or Come Shine</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Since_I_Fell_for_You" title="Since I Fell for You">Since I Fell for You</a>"</li> <li>2005: "<a href="/wiki/Need_Your_Love_So_Bad" title="Need Your Love So Bad">Need Your Love So Bad</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Early_in_the_Morning_(Sonny_Boy_Williamson_I_song)" title="Early in the Morning (Sonny Boy Williamson I song)">Early in the Morning</a>"</li> <li>2008: "<a href="/wiki/See_That_My_Grave_Is_Kept_Clean" title="See That My Grave Is Kept Clean">See That My Grave Is Kept Clean</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Sitting_on_Top_of_the_World" title="Sitting on Top of the World">Sitting on Top of the World</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related articles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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King "Into the Night"">B.B. King "Into the Night"</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Memphis_blues" title="Memphis blues">Memphis blues</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Beale_Streeters" title="The Beale Streeters">The Beale Streeters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beale_Street" title="Beale Street">Beale Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WDIA" title="WDIA">WDIA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chitlin%27_Circuit" title="Chitlin' Circuit">Chitlin' Circuit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bihari_brothers" title="Bihari brothers">Bihari brothers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucille_(guitar)" title="Lucille (guitar)">Lucille (guitar)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B.B._King_Museum" title="B.B. King Museum">B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Road_to_Memphis" title="The Road to Memphis">The Road to Memphis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Awards_for_B._B._King" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background:#e8e8ff;"><div id="Awards_for_B._B._King" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Awards for B. B. 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King">B.B. King</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Stern" title="Isaac Stern">Isaac Stern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Igor_Stravinsky" title="Igor Stravinsky">Igor Stravinsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arturo_Toscanini" title="Arturo Toscanini">Arturo Toscanini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hank_Williams" title="Hank Williams">Hank Williams</a></li></ul></li> <li>1989 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fred_Astaire" title="Fred Astaire">Fred Astaire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pablo_Casals" title="Pablo Casals">Pablo Casals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie" title="Dizzy Gillespie">Dizzy Gillespie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jascha_Heifetz" title="Jascha Heifetz">Jascha Heifetz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lena_Horne" title="Lena Horne">Lena Horne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leontyne_Price" title="Leontyne Price">Leontyne Price</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bessie_Smith" title="Bessie Smith">Bessie Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Art_Tatum" title="Art Tatum">Art Tatum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Vaughan" title="Sarah Vaughan">Sarah Vaughan</a></li></ul></li> <li>1990 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nat_King_Cole" title="Nat King Cole">Nat King Cole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miles_Davis" title="Miles Davis">Miles Davis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Horowitz" title="Vladimir Horowitz">Vladimir Horowitz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_McCartney" title="Paul McCartney">Paul McCartney</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">1991–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>1991 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marian_Anderson" title="Marian Anderson">Marian Anderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Lennon" title="John Lennon">John Lennon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kitty_Wells" title="Kitty Wells">Kitty Wells</a></li></ul></li> <li>1992 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Brown" title="James Brown">James Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Coltrane" title="John Coltrane">John Coltrane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jimi_Hendrix" title="Jimi Hendrix">Jimi Hendrix</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muddy_Waters" title="Muddy Waters">Muddy Waters</a></li></ul></li> <li>1993 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chet_Atkins" title="Chet Atkins">Chet Atkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Richard" title="Little Richard">Little Richard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thelonious_Monk" title="Thelonious Monk">Thelonious Monk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Monroe" title="Bill Monroe">Bill Monroe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pete_Seeger" title="Pete Seeger">Pete Seeger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fats_Waller" title="Fats Waller">Fats Waller</a></li></ul></li> <li>1994 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Evans" title="Bill Evans">Bill Evans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aretha_Franklin" title="Aretha Franklin">Aretha Franklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Rubinstein" title="Arthur Rubinstein">Arthur Rubinstein</a></li></ul></li> <li>1995 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Patsy_Cline" title="Patsy Cline">Patsy Cline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peggy_Lee" title="Peggy Lee">Peggy Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Mancini" title="Henry Mancini">Henry Mancini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Curtis_Mayfield" title="Curtis Mayfield">Curtis Mayfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barbra_Streisand" title="Barbra Streisand">Barbra Streisand</a></li></ul></li> <li>1996 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Brubeck" title="Dave Brubeck">Dave Brubeck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marvin_Gaye" title="Marvin Gaye">Marvin Gaye</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georg_Solti" title="Georg Solti">Georg Solti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stevie_Wonder" title="Stevie Wonder">Stevie Wonder</a></li></ul></li> <li>1997 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bobby_Bland" title="Bobby Bland">Bobby "Blue" Bland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Everly_Brothers" title="The Everly Brothers">The Everly Brothers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judy_Garland" title="Judy Garland">Judy Garland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St%C3%A9phane_Grappelli" title="Stéphane Grappelli">Stéphane Grappelli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddy_Holly" title="Buddy Holly">Buddy Holly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Mingus" title="Charles Mingus">Charles Mingus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Peterson" title="Oscar Peterson">Oscar Peterson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Zappa" title="Frank Zappa">Frank Zappa</a></li></ul></li> <li>1998 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bo_Diddley" title="Bo Diddley">Bo Diddley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Mills_Brothers" title="The Mills Brothers">The Mills Brothers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Orbison" title="Roy Orbison">Roy Orbison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Robeson" title="Paul Robeson">Paul Robeson</a></li></ul></li> <li>1999 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Cash" title="Johnny Cash">Johnny Cash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke">Sam Cooke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Otis_Redding" title="Otis Redding">Otis Redding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smokey_Robinson" title="Smokey Robinson">Smokey Robinson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mel_Torm%C3%A9" title="Mel Tormé">Mel Tormé</a></li></ul></li> <li>2000 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Belafonte" title="Harry Belafonte">Harry Belafonte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woody_Guthrie" title="Woody Guthrie">Woody Guthrie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Lee_Hooker" title="John Lee Hooker">John Lee Hooker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitch_Miller" title="Mitch Miller">Mitch Miller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willie_Nelson" title="Willie Nelson">Willie Nelson</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">2001–2010</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>2001 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Beach_Boys" title="The Beach Boys">The Beach Boys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Bennett" title="Tony Bennett">Tony Bennett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sammy_Davis_Jr." title="Sammy Davis Jr.">Sammy Davis Jr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Marley" title="Bob Marley">Bob Marley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Who" title="The Who">The Who</a></li></ul></li> <li>2002 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Count_Basie" title="Count Basie">Count Basie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rosemary_Clooney" title="Rosemary Clooney">Rosemary Clooney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perry_Como" title="Perry Como">Perry Como</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Green" title="Al Green">Al Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joni_Mitchell" title="Joni Mitchell">Joni Mitchell</a></li></ul></li> <li>2003 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Etta_James" title="Etta James">Etta James</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Mathis" title="Johnny Mathis">Johnny Mathis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glenn_Miller" title="Glenn Miller">Glenn Miller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tito_Puente" title="Tito Puente">Tito Puente</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_%26_Garfunkel" title="Simon & Garfunkel">Simon & Garfunkel</a></li></ul></li> <li>2004 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Van_Cliburn" title="Van Cliburn">Van Cliburn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Funk_Brothers" title="The Funk Brothers">The Funk Brothers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ella_Jenkins" title="Ella Jenkins">Ella Jenkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonny_Rollins" title="Sonny Rollins">Sonny Rollins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artie_Shaw" title="Artie Shaw">Artie Shaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doc_Watson" title="Doc Watson">Doc Watson</a></li></ul></li> <li>2005 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eddy_Arnold" title="Eddy Arnold">Eddy Arnold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Art_Blakey" title="Art Blakey">Art Blakey</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Carter_Family" title="Carter Family">Carter Family</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morton_Gould" title="Morton Gould">Morton Gould</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janis_Joplin" title="Janis Joplin">Janis Joplin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Led_Zeppelin" title="Led Zeppelin">Led Zeppelin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Lee_Lewis" title="Jerry Lee Lewis">Jerry Lee Lewis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jelly_Roll_Morton" title="Jelly Roll Morton">Jelly Roll Morton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pinetop_Perkins" title="Pinetop Perkins">Pinetop Perkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Staple_Singers" title="The Staple Singers">The Staple Singers</a></li></ul></li> <li>2006 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/David_Bowie" title="David Bowie">David Bowie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cream_(band)" title="Cream (band)">Cream</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merle_Haggard" title="Merle Haggard">Merle Haggard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Johnson" title="Robert Johnson">Robert Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jessye_Norman" title="Jessye Norman">Jessye Norman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Pryor" title="Richard Pryor">Richard Pryor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Weavers" title="The Weavers">The Weavers</a></li></ul></li> <li>2007 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joan_Baez" title="Joan Baez">Joan Baez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Booker_T._%26_the_M.G.%27s" title="Booker T. & the M.G.'s">Booker T. & the M.G.'s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maria_Callas" title="Maria Callas">Maria Callas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ornette_Coleman" title="Ornette Coleman">Ornette Coleman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Doors" title="The Doors">The Doors</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Grateful_Dead" title="Grateful Dead">Grateful Dead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Wills" title="Bob Wills">Bob Wills</a></li></ul></li> <li>2008 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Burt_Bacharach" title="Burt Bacharach">Burt Bacharach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Band" title="The Band">The Band</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cab_Calloway" title="Cab Calloway">Cab Calloway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doris_Day" title="Doris Day">Doris Day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Itzhak_Perlman" title="Itzhak Perlman">Itzhak Perlman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Max_Roach" title="Max Roach">Max Roach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earl_Scruggs" title="Earl Scruggs">Earl Scruggs</a></li></ul></li> <li>2009 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gene_Autry" title="Gene Autry">Gene Autry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Blind_Boys_of_Alabama" title="The Blind Boys of Alabama">The Blind Boys of Alabama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Four_Tops" title="Four Tops">The Four Tops</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hank_Jones" title="Hank Jones">Hank Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brenda_Lee" title="Brenda Lee">Brenda Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dean_Martin" title="Dean Martin">Dean Martin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Paxton" title="Tom Paxton">Tom Paxton</a></li></ul></li> <li>2010 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Cohen" title="Leonard Cohen">Leonard Cohen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bobby_Darin" title="Bobby Darin">Bobby Darin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_%22Honeyboy%22_Edwards" title="David "Honeyboy" Edwards">David "Honeyboy" Edwards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Jackson" title="Michael Jackson">Michael Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loretta_Lynn" title="Loretta Lynn">Loretta Lynn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Previn" title="André Previn">André Previn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clark_Terry" title="Clark Terry">Clark Terry</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">2011–2020</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>2011 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Julie_Andrews" title="Julie Andrews">Julie Andrews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Haynes" title="Roy Haynes">Roy Haynes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juilliard_String_Quartet" title="Juilliard String Quartet">Juilliard String Quartet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Kingston_Trio" title="The Kingston Trio">The Kingston Trio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dolly_Parton" title="Dolly Parton">Dolly Parton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramones" title="Ramones">Ramones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Beverly_Shea" title="George Beverly Shea">George Beverly Shea</a></li></ul></li> <li>2012 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Allman_Brothers_Band" title="The Allman Brothers Band">The Allman Brothers Band</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glen_Campbell" title="Glen Campbell">Glen Campbell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ant%C3%B4nio_Carlos_Jobim" title="Antônio Carlos Jobim">Antônio Carlos Jobim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Jones" title="George Jones">George Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Memphis_Horns" title="The Memphis Horns">The Memphis Horns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diana_Ross" title="Diana Ross">Diana Ross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gil_Scott-Heron" title="Gil Scott-Heron">Gil Scott-Heron</a></li></ul></li> <li>2013 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Glenn_Gould" title="Glenn Gould">Glenn Gould</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Haden" title="Charlie Haden">Charlie Haden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lightnin%27_Hopkins" title="Lightnin' Hopkins">Lightnin' Hopkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carole_King" title="Carole King">Carole King</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patti_Page" title="Patti Page">Patti Page</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ravi_Shankar" title="Ravi Shankar">Ravi Shankar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Temptations" title="The Temptations">The Temptations</a></li></ul></li> <li>2014 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">The Beatles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clifton_Chenier" title="Clifton Chenier">Clifton Chenier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Isley_Brothers" title="The Isley Brothers">The Isley Brothers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kraftwerk" title="Kraftwerk">Kraftwerk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kris_Kristofferson" title="Kris Kristofferson">Kris Kristofferson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armando_Manzanero" title="Armando Manzanero">Armando Manzanero</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maud_Powell" title="Maud Powell">Maud Powell</a></li></ul></li> <li>2015 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bee_Gees" title="Bee Gees">Bee Gees</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Boulez" title="Pierre Boulez">Pierre Boulez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddy_Guy" title="Buddy Guy">Buddy Guy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Harrison" title="George Harrison">George Harrison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flaco_Jim%C3%A9nez" title="Flaco Jiménez">Flaco Jiménez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Louvin_Brothers" title="The Louvin Brothers">The Louvin Brothers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wayne_Shorter" title="Wayne Shorter">Wayne Shorter</a></li></ul></li> <li>2016 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ruth_Brown" title="Ruth Brown">Ruth Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Celia_Cruz" title="Celia Cruz">Celia Cruz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earth,_Wind_%26_Fire" title="Earth, Wind & Fire">Earth, Wind & Fire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbie_Hancock" title="Herbie Hancock">Herbie Hancock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jefferson_Airplane" title="Jefferson Airplane">Jefferson Airplane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Linda_Ronstadt" title="Linda Ronstadt">Linda Ronstadt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Run-DMC" title="Run-DMC">Run-DMC</a></li></ul></li> <li>2017 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shirley_Caesar" title="Shirley Caesar">Shirley Caesar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahmad_Jamal" title="Ahmad Jamal">Ahmad Jamal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charley_Pride" title="Charley Pride">Charley Pride</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jimmie_Rodgers_(country_singer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jimmie Rodgers (country singer)">Jimmie Rodgers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nina_Simone" title="Nina Simone">Nina Simone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sly_Stone" title="Sly Stone">Sly Stone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Velvet_Underground" title="The Velvet Underground">The Velvet Underground</a></li></ul></li> <li>2018 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hal_Blaine" title="Hal Blaine">Hal Blaine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Diamond" title="Neil Diamond">Neil Diamond</a></li> <li><a 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<li><a href="/wiki/Dionne_Warwick" title="Dionne Warwick">Dionne Warwick</a></li></ul></li> <li>2020 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chicago_(band)" title="Chicago (band)">Chicago</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roberta_Flack" title="Roberta Flack">Roberta Flack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Hayes" title="Isaac Hayes">Isaac Hayes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iggy_Pop" title="Iggy Pop">Iggy Pop</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Prine" title="John Prine">John Prine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Public_Enemy" title="Public Enemy">Public Enemy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sister_Rosetta_Tharpe" title="Sister Rosetta Tharpe">Sister Rosetta Tharpe</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">2021–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>2021 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Grandmaster_Flash_and_the_Furious_Five" title="Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five">Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lionel_Hampton" title="Lionel Hampton">Lionel Hampton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Horne" title="Marilyn Horne">Marilyn Horne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salt-N-Pepa" title="Salt-N-Pepa">Salt-N-Pepa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selena" title="Selena">Selena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talking_Heads" title="Talking Heads">Talking Heads</a></li></ul></li> <li>2022 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bonnie_Raitt" title="Bonnie Raitt">Bonnie Raitt</a></li></ul></li> <li>2023 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bobby_McFerrin" title="Bobby McFerrin">Bobby McFerrin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nirvana_(band)" title="Nirvana (band)">Nirvana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ma_Rainey" title="Ma Rainey">Ma Rainey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slick_Rick" title="Slick Rick">Slick Rick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nile_Rodgers" title="Nile Rodgers">Nile Rodgers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Supremes" title="The Supremes">The Supremes</a></li> 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navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Acuff" title="Roy Acuff">Roy Acuff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Betty_Comden" title="Betty Comden">Betty Comden</a> and <a href="/wiki/Adolph_Green" title="Adolph Green">Adolph Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fayard_Nicholas" title="Fayard Nicholas">Fayard</a> and <a href="/wiki/Harold_Nicholas" title="Harold Nicholas">Harold Nicholas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gregory_Peck" title="Gregory Peck">Gregory Peck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Shaw_(conductor)" title="Robert Shaw (conductor)">Robert Shaw</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1992</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lionel_Hampton" title="Lionel Hampton">Lionel Hampton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Newman" title="Paul Newman">Paul Newman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Joanne_Woodward" title="Joanne Woodward">Joanne Woodward</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers">Ginger Rogers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mstislav_Rostropovich" title="Mstislav Rostropovich">Mstislav Rostropovich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Taylor_(choreographer)" title="Paul Taylor (choreographer)">Paul Taylor</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1993</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Carson" title="Johnny Carson">Johnny Carson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Mitchell_(dancer)" title="Arthur Mitchell (dancer)">Arthur Mitchell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georg_Solti" title="Georg Solti">Sir Georg Solti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Sondheim" title="Stephen Sondheim">Stephen Sondheim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marion_Williams" title="Marion Williams">Marion Williams</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1994</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kirk_Douglas" title="Kirk Douglas">Kirk Douglas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aretha_Franklin" title="Aretha Franklin">Aretha Franklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morton_Gould" title="Morton Gould">Morton Gould</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Prince" title="Harold Prince">Harold Prince</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pete_Seeger" title="Pete Seeger">Pete Seeger</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1995</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jacques_d%27Amboise_(dancer)" title="Jacques d'Amboise (dancer)">Jacques d'Amboise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Horne" title="Marilyn Horne">Marilyn Horne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B.B._King" class="mw-redirect" title="B.B. King">B.B. King</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Poitier" title="Sidney Poitier">Sidney Poitier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Simon" title="Neil Simon">Neil Simon</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1996</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Albee" title="Edward Albee">Edward Albee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benny_Carter" title="Benny Carter">Benny Carter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Cash" title="Johnny Cash">Johnny Cash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Lemmon" title="Jack Lemmon">Jack Lemmon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maria_Tallchief" title="Maria Tallchief">Maria Tallchief</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1997</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a 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href="/wiki/Shirley_Temple" title="Shirley Temple">Shirley Temple Black</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1999</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Victor_Borge" title="Victor Borge">Victor Borge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sean_Connery" title="Sean Connery">Sean Connery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judith_Jamison" title="Judith Jamison">Judith Jamison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jason_Robards" title="Jason Robards">Jason Robards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stevie_Wonder" title="Stevie Wonder">Stevie Wonder</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kennedy_Center_Honors" title="Kennedy Center Honors">Complete list</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:Kennedy_Center_Honorees_1970s" title="Template:Kennedy Center Honorees 1970s">1970s</a></li> <li><a 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(1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joni_Mitchell" title="Joni Mitchell">Joni Mitchell</a> / <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Boulez" title="Pierre Boulez">Pierre Boulez</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Springsteen" title="Bruce Springsteen">Bruce Springsteen</a> / <a href="/wiki/Eric_Ericson" title="Eric Ericson">Eric Ericson</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ray_Charles" title="Ray Charles">Ray Charles</a> / <a href="/wiki/Ravi_Shankar" title="Ravi Shankar">Ravi Shankar</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stevie_Wonder" title="Stevie Wonder">Stevie Wonder</a> / <a href="/wiki/Iannis_Xenakis" title="Iannis Xenakis">Iannis Xenakis</a> (1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d3d3d3;;width:1%">2000s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a> / <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Stern" title="Isaac Stern">Isaac Stern</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burt_Bacharach" title="Burt Bacharach">Burt Bacharach</a> / <a href="/wiki/Robert_Moog" title="Robert Moog">Robert Moog</a> / <a href="/wiki/Karlheinz_Stockhausen" title="Karlheinz Stockhausen">Karlheinz Stockhausen</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miriam_Makeba" title="Miriam Makeba">Miriam Makeba</a> / <a href="/wiki/Sofia_Gubaidulina" title="Sofia Gubaidulina">Sofia Gubaidulina</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keith_Jarrett" title="Keith Jarrett">Keith Jarrett</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/B.B._King" class="mw-redirect" title="B.B. King">B.B. King</a> / <a href="/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Ligeti" title="György Ligeti">György Ligeti</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilberto_Gil" title="Gilberto Gil">Gilberto Gil</a> / <a href="/wiki/Dietrich_Fischer-Dieskau" title="Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau">Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Led_Zeppelin" title="Led Zeppelin">Led Zeppelin</a> / <a href="/wiki/Valery_Gergiev" title="Valery Gergiev">Valery Gergiev</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonny_Rollins" title="Sonny Rollins">Sonny Rollins</a> / <a href="/wiki/Steve_Reich" title="Steve Reich">Steve Reich</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pink_Floyd" title="Pink Floyd">Pink Floyd</a> / <a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_Fleming" title="Renée Fleming">Renée Fleming</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Gabriel" title="Peter Gabriel">Peter Gabriel</a> / <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Antonio_Abreu" title="José Antonio Abreu">José Antonio Abreu</a> / <a href="/wiki/El_Sistema" title="El Sistema">El Sistema</a> (2009)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d3d3d3;;width:1%">2010s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rk" title="Björk">Björk</a> / <a href="/wiki/Ennio_Morricone" title="Ennio Morricone">Ennio Morricone</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kronos_Quartet" title="Kronos Quartet">Kronos Quartet</a> / <a href="/wiki/Patti_Smith" title="Patti Smith">Patti Smith</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Simon" title="Paul Simon">Paul Simon</a> / <a href="/wiki/Yo-Yo_Ma" title="Yo-Yo Ma">Yo-Yo Ma</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Youssou_N%27Dour" title="Youssou N'Dour">Youssou N'Dour</a> / <a href="/wiki/Kaija_Saariaho" title="Kaija Saariaho">Kaija Saariaho</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chuck_Berry" title="Chuck Berry">Chuck Berry</a> / <a href="/wiki/Peter_Sellars" title="Peter Sellars">Peter Sellars</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emmylou_Harris" title="Emmylou Harris">Emmylou Harris</a> / <a href="/wiki/Evelyn_Glennie" title="Evelyn Glennie">Evelyn Glennie</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Max_Martin" title="Max Martin">Max Martin</a> / <a href="/wiki/Cecilia_Bartoli" title="Cecilia Bartoli">Cecilia Bartoli</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sting_(musician)" title="Sting (musician)">Sting</a> / <a href="/wiki/Wayne_Shorter" title="Wayne Shorter">Wayne Shorter</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metallica" title="Metallica">Metallica</a> / <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan_National_Institute_of_Music" title="Afghanistan National Institute of Music">Afghanistan National Institute of Music</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grandmaster_Flash" title="Grandmaster Flash">Grandmaster Flash</a> / <a href="/wiki/Anne-Sophie_Mutter" title="Anne-Sophie Mutter">Anne-Sophie Mutter</a> / <a href="/wiki/Playing_for_Change" title="Playing for Change">Playing for Change</a> (2019)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d3d3d3;;width:1%">2020s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anna_Netrebko" title="Anna Netrebko">Anna Netrebko</a> / <a href="/wiki/Diane_Warren" title="Diane Warren">Diane Warren</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iggy_Pop" title="Iggy Pop">Iggy Pop</a> / <a href="/wiki/Ensemble_intercontemporain" title="Ensemble intercontemporain">Ensemble intercontemporain</a> (2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Blackwell" title="Chris Blackwell">Chris Blackwell</a> / <a href="/wiki/Ang%C3%A9lique_Kidjo" title="Angélique Kidjo">Angélique Kidjo</a> / <a href="/wiki/Arvo_P%C3%A4rt" title="Arvo Pärt">Arvo Pärt</a> (2023)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nile_Rodgers" title="Nile Rodgers">Nile Rodgers</a> / <a href="/wiki/Esa-Pekka_Salonen" title="Esa-Pekka Salonen">Esa-Pekka Salonen</a> (2024)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> 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href="/wiki/Jessica_Tandy" title="Jessica Tandy">Jessica Tandy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merce_Cunningham" title="Merce Cunningham">Merce Cunningham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jasper_Johns" title="Jasper Johns">Jasper Johns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacob_Lawrence" title="Jacob Lawrence">Jacob Lawrence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B.B._King" class="mw-redirect" title="B.B. King">Riley "B.B." King</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Lloyd_Kreeger" title="David Lloyd Kreeger">David Lloyd Kreeger</a></li> <li>Harris & Carroll Sterling Masterson</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ian_McHarg" title="Ian McHarg">Ian McHarg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beverly_Sills" title="Beverly Sills">Beverly Sills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BellSouth" title="BellSouth">Southeastern Bell Corporation</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1991</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Abravanel" title="Maurice Abravanel">Maurice Abravanel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Acuff" title="Roy Acuff">Roy Acuff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pietro_Belluschi" title="Pietro Belluschi">Pietro Belluschi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Carter_Brown_III" class="mw-redirect" title="John Carter Brown III">John Carter Brown III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_%22Honi%22_Coles" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles "Honi" Coles">Charles "Honi" Coles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Crosby_(conductor)" title="John Crosby (conductor)">John Crosby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Diebenkorn" title="Richard Diebenkorn">Richard Diebenkorn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._Philip_Hanes" class="mw-redirect" title="R. Philip Hanes">R. Philip Hanes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kitty_Carlisle" title="Kitty Carlisle">Kitty Carlisle Hart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pearl_Primus" title="Pearl Primus">Pearl Primus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Stern" title="Isaac Stern">Isaac Stern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texaco" title="Texaco">Texaco</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1992</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Horne" title="Marilyn Horne">Marilyn Horne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Earl_Jones" title="James Earl Jones">James Earl Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allan_Houser" title="Allan Houser">Allan Houser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minnie_Pearl" title="Minnie Pearl">Minnie Pearl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Saudek" title="Robert Saudek">Robert Saudek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earl_Scruggs" title="Earl Scruggs">Earl Scruggs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Shaw_(conductor)" title="Robert Shaw (conductor)">Robert Shaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Taylor" title="Billy Taylor">Billy Taylor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Venturi" title="Robert Venturi">Robert Venturi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Denise_Scott_Brown" title="Denise Scott Brown">Denise Scott Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Wise" title="Robert Wise">Robert Wise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AT%26T" title="AT&T">AT&T</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lila_Acheson_Wallace" title="Lila Acheson Wallace">Lila Wallace</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1993</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Annenberg" title="Walter Annenberg">Walter</a> and <a href="/wiki/Leonore_Annenberg" title="Leonore Annenberg">Leonore Annenberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cab_Calloway" title="Cab Calloway">Cabell "Cab" Calloway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ray_Charles" title="Ray Charles">Ray Charles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bess_Lomax_Hawes" title="Bess Lomax Hawes">Bess Lomax Hawes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Kunitz" title="Stanley Kunitz">Stanley Kunitz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Merrill" title="Robert Merrill">Robert Merrill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Miller" title="Arthur Miller">Arthur Miller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Rauschenberg" title="Robert Rauschenberg">Robert Rauschenberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lloyd_Richards" title="Lloyd Richards">Lloyd Richards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Styron" title="William Styron">William Styron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Taylor_(choreographer)" title="Paul Taylor (choreographer)">Paul Taylor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Wilder" title="Billy Wilder">Billy Wilder</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1994</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Belafonte" title="Harry Belafonte">Harry Belafonte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Brubeck" title="Dave Brubeck">Dave Brubeck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Celia_Cruz" title="Celia Cruz">Celia Cruz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dorothy_DeLay" title="Dorothy DeLay">Dorothy DeLay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julie_Harris" title="Julie Harris">Julie Harris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erick_Hawkins" title="Erick Hawkins">Erick Hawkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gene_Kelly" title="Gene Kelly">Gene Kelly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pete_Seeger" title="Pete Seeger">Pete Seeger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catherine_Filene_Shouse" title="Catherine Filene Shouse">Catherine Filene Shouse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wayne_Thiebaud" title="Wayne Thiebaud">Wayne Thiebaud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Wilbur" title="Richard Wilbur">Richard Wilbur</a></li> <li>Young Audiences</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1995</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Licia_Albanese" title="Licia Albanese">Licia Albanese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwendolyn_Brooks" title="Gwendolyn Brooks">Gwendolyn Brooks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._Gerald_Cantor" title="B. Gerald Cantor">B. Gerald</a> and <a href="/wiki/Iris_Cantor" title="Iris Cantor">Iris Cantor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ossie_Davis" title="Ossie Davis">Ossie Davis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ruby_Dee" title="Ruby Dee">Ruby Dee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Diamond_(composer)" title="David Diamond (composer)">David Diamond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Ingo_Freed" title="James Ingo Freed">James Ingo Freed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Hope" title="Bob Hope">Bob Hope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Lichtenstein" title="Roy Lichtenstein">Roy Lichtenstein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Mitchell_(dancer)" title="Arthur Mitchell (dancer)">Arthur Mitchell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Monroe" title="Bill Monroe">Bill Monroe</a></li> <li>Urban Gateways</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1996</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Albee" title="Edward Albee">Edward Albee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Caldwell" title="Sarah Caldwell">Sarah Caldwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Callahan_(photographer)" title="Harry Callahan (photographer)">Harry Callahan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zelda_Fichandler" title="Zelda Fichandler">Zelda Fichandler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lalo_Guerrero" title="Lalo Guerrero">Eduardo "Lalo" Guerrero</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lionel_Hampton" title="Lionel Hampton">Lionel Hampton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bella_Lewitzky" title="Bella Lewitzky">Bella Lewitzky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vera_List" class="mw-redirect" title="Vera List">Vera List</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Redford" title="Robert Redford">Robert Redford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Sendak" title="Maurice Sendak">Maurice Sendak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Sondheim" title="Stephen Sondheim">Stephen Sondheim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boys_Choir_of_Harlem" title="Boys Choir of Harlem">Boys Choir of Harlem</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1997</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Louise_Bourgeois" title="Louise Bourgeois">Louise Bourgeois</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Betty_Carter" title="Betty Carter">Betty Carter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agnes_Gund" title="Agnes Gund">Agnes Gund</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dan_Kiley" title="Dan Kiley">Daniel Urban Kiley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angela_Lansbury" title="Angela Lansbury">Angela Lansbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Levine" title="James Levine">James Levine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tito_Puente" title="Tito Puente">Tito Puente</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jason_Robards" title="Jason Robards">Jason Robards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Villella" title="Edward Villella">Edward Villella</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doc_Watson" title="Doc Watson">Doc Watson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MacDowell_Colony" class="mw-redirect" title="MacDowell Colony">MacDowell Colony</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1998</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jacques_d%27Amboise_(dancer)" title="Jacques d'Amboise (dancer)">Jacques d'Amboise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fats_Domino" title="Fats Domino">Antoine "Fats" Domino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramblin%27_Jack_Elliott" title="Ramblin' Jack Elliott">Ramblin' Jack Elliott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Gehry" title="Frank Gehry">Frank Gehry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Handman" title="Barbara Handman">Barbara Handman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agnes_Martin" title="Agnes Martin">Agnes Martin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gregory_Peck" title="Gregory Peck">Gregory Peck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roberta_Peters" title="Roberta 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