Riley B King: The Three Famous Musicians In Mississippi

These are three are the famous musicians in Mississippi as a child I heard my parents speak about and still can remember some of the music being played by a few. They seem to be household names and more places than St. Louis. These three people are BB King, Muddy Waters and Bessie Smith. All from the state of Mississippi. BB King, is still playing the blues even though he’s past the age of 87. His birth given name is Riley B. King. In 1949 he began to be a well know musician, although he got signed to a company by the name of RPM records. So anxious and excited about music and entertainment, BB King got to the point that he stared three clubs of his own clubs them as time went on he had the total of six Different Clubs in six different states. King has been married twice, to Martha Lee Denton, 1946 to 1952, and to Sue Carol Hall. He is the father of 15, in 2004 he already had 50 grandchildren. Twenty years of his career he was living with type II diabetes.
Still today he does commercials for the one touch machines used to check the levels of sugar. …show more content…
The year of 1942 Lomax came to record Muddy song again. Muddy Wife died of cancer then his kids got turned over to by his own doctor. McKinley Morganfield Died in his sleep because of heart failure He is known to be one of the best blues singers of all times. He was active from the year 1941 till 1982.Muddy's grandmother, Della Grant, raised him after his mother died shortly following his birth. Muddy waters was one of my great granny blues singer she liked listening to. Muddy was a very money making man. He stated at the age of 16 with blues singing. He got his first interment when he was a freshmen in school. I look up to him because he set a goal and went for it. Muddy waters band member wanted more money so they can get everything that they need to stay off the