Riley Bee King received the nickname "Beale Street Boys Street" (Beale Street Blues Boy), later reduced to "B. »! King began a career as a musician in Memphis at the age of 23 in a rhythm and blues radio station, working as a singer and disc jockey, before that Bee Bi was a farmer in his native state of Mississippi and played the guitar only in his spare time.

BB King is famous, above all, for his enormous talent for improvisation. In 1956 year. He set a personal record, having played 342 concerts during the calendar year. In 1969, King recorded the main track in his discography, The Thrill Is Gone. She became a hit on the rhythm and blues chart as well as pop music, which was very rare for the blues, won the Grammy Award and was ranked 183 on the list of "500 best songs of all time" according to Rolling Stone.

In the year 1980. BB King was included in the Blues Hall of Fame! Virtually without reducing creative activity until the end of his life, Bee Bee continued to play 300 concerts a year and lived 89 years, leaving behind a huge legacy and creating the largest international community as listeners and connoisseurs of blues, and fellow musicians from Gary Moore to The Rolling Stones.

It would not be an exaggeration to call BB King one of the greatest bluesmen - and on the evening of June 6 in the House of Printing his music will again sound. On the stage - our friends from the group Blues Doctors and a special guest for keyboards - Alex Kiryanov!.