The charismatic guitarist and singer B.B. King (born Riley B. King on September 16, 1925, in Itta Bena, Mississippi) passed away on Thursday, May 14, 2015, in Las Vegas after spending more than six decades introducing audiences to electric blues. He was 89.
This page aims to satiate the interest of his followers who have been eager to learn more about his family history.
B.B. King family, wife, and children
King was married twice: from November 1946 to 1952 to Martha Lee Denton and from 1958 to 1966 to Sue Carol Hall. Reports claim he had 15 children with different women.
B.B. King , parents, and siblings
Albert and Nora Ella King gave birth to him. He had no siblings that we know of.
King, the unrivalled spokesperson for the blues, kept up a busy touring schedule far into his late 80s. His trademark playing style, which included a throaty, throttling vocal wail and a ringing single-note vibrato sound on his electric guitar dubbed Lucille, helped to popularize the genre. He garnered 15 Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
King was a large spender who indulged in a variety of vices, including food, women (he claimed to have fathered 15 children by 15 different partners), and gambling.
