The blues is dead

The last 14th May the most iconic bluesman in the world had his last words with the fans he had worldwide. He left the world with elegance, as he had alway done in everything Riley Ben King aka Blues Boy King (BB King) died at home at the age of 89. He had been playing until january, when he had been diagnosticated of severe diabetes and heart problems due to the diabetes pathologies. In his last month of live he had been at home with palliative care.
As he died, I've decide to give him some honors in my blog the way I'm able to do this so I'd like to post a very, very short biography of the king himself.

He was born in 1925 near Mississipi. His family worked in the cotton fields, but he was such a rebel for his time, so he left his home and went living with his grandmother. There he began singin in gospel groups, but he did'nt feel really good just singing, so he went one step further. At the age of 12 he bought his first guitar for 15 dollars. It was a secondhand guitar and it didn't sound really well, but he had no money for a luthier so he tried to repair it alone, and he did, succesfully. He began playing in jazz quartets but that music didn't convince him at all. A few years later he heard about a style named blues which had all the features he wanted. Not fast compasses, precison notes and a lot of feelings involved to it. That was the point when the real blues was born and the greatest hits like "The thrill is gone", "Rock me Baby" and "Lucille" appeared.

A curious story about him is the origin of Lucille, the most famous ES-335 in the world. It's simple but curious. He was playing on a pub in Detroit when it started to burn. Once he was outside he noticed that his guitar wasn't with him, so he went through the fire and saved his guitar covering it with his jacket. He was disposed to lose his life for his guitar. A few hours later he was told that the fire had been caused by two guys who were fighting for a girl named Lucille, and he decided to thank Lucille the opportunity of feeling love for his guitar and his life so he named the guitar Lucille.