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Born Riley B. King September 16, 1925, in Itta Bena, MS; son of Albert Lee and Nora Ella King; married Martha Lee,(divorced); married Sue Hall, June of 1958 (divorced 1966).

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Addresses: Management--Sidney A. Seidenberg, 1414 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019.

In the late 1940s Riley B. King worked his way from the cotton fields of Mississippi to Memphis, Tennessee, where he was dubbed B.B.

(short for Blues Boy) and earned a reputation as a first class blues man. For more than 50 years the name B.B. King would remain synonymous with blues music everywhere. King started his career on Memphis's Beale Street and became a blues legend.

He became known as the King of the Blues, a rank of music royalty he would share with another Memphis legend, Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll.

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There are, in fact, ten-foot high bronze statues of both Kings--B.B. and Elvis--on Beale Street. King, with the help of his guitar "Lucille," developed a singular musical style. Without the fulln