Blues legend, BB King died. BB King is a guitarist who brought the blues from the suburbs to become one of the mainstream music in the world today.
BB King died in Las Vegas at the age of 89 years. In addition to expertly play the guitar, King is also known as a singer with a deep voice and depth character .
BB King once immortalized in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. reportedly King died of diabetes.
"Blues has lost its king, and America has lost one of the music legends," said US President Barack Obama as he claimed had a song along BB King's "Sweet Home Chicago".
"BB may have gone, but the memories he will always be with us forever. By doing so, in heaven at this time there will be a stage of the blues," Obama said.
King's death was confirmed on Thursday morning via Facebook account linked to the site owned by his son, Claudette.
BB King was born with the name Riley B King in Mississippi on September 16, 1925, he then great post-World War 2. He created a lot of songs from his life.
"Being a blues singer like being a black man for the second time," wrote King in his biography.
King has also said that the civil war just as blacks were fighting for honor. He also increasingly mastering the blues.
King will forever be associated with the Gibson guitar known as Lucille. The name he took from a woman who contested by two men in Arkansas in 1949 when he was on stage.
In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine wrote 100 best guitarists of all time, and BB King at No. 3 after Jimi Hendrix and Duane Allman
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