When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Daniel de Visé began contemplating a biography of B.B. King — one of the most iconic figures in American music — he was shocked at what he discovered.

B.B. King lived large and long, tallying 89 years before his death in 2015. Nearly 70 of those years were spent performing: from a spirited young voice on Memphis radio to barnstorming the chitlin’ ...

B.B. was such a total artist. He was such an entity. The singing, the playing, the songs. I think he made, like, sixty ...

B.B. King, the King of the Blues, would have turned 100 on Sept. 16. Most Americans know his name, his primacy among blues legends, and the singular identity of his beloved hollow-body Gibson guitar ...

Riley B. King, known as B.B. King, was an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter acclaimed for his expressive singing and fluid, complex guitar playing. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at #3 ...