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His reign as King of the Blues has been as long as that of any monarch on earth. Yet B.B. King continues to wear his crown well. At age 76\, he is still light on his feet\, singing and playing the blues with relentless passion. Time has no apparent effect on B.B.\, other than to make him more popular\, more cherished\, more relevant than ever. Don't look for him in some kind of semi-retirement\; look for him out on the road\, playing for people\, popping up in a myriad of T.V. commercials\, or laying down tracks for his next album. B.B. King is as alive as the music he plays\, and a grateful world can't get enough of him.
For more than half a century\, Riley B. King - better known as B.B. King - has defined the blues for a worldwide audience. Since he started recording in the 1940s\, he has released over fifty albums\, many of them classics. He was born September 16\, 1925\, on a plantation in Itta Bena\, Mississippi\, near Indianola. In his youth\, he played on street corners for dimes\, and would sometimes play in as many as four towns a night. In 1947\, he hitchhiked to Memphis\, TN\, to pursue his music career. Memphis was where every important musician of the South gravitated\, and which supported a large musical community where every style of African American music could be found. B.B. stayed with his cousin Bukka White\, one of the most celebrated blues performers of his time\, who schooled B.B. further in the art of the blues.
B.B.'s first big break came in 1948 when he performed on Sonny Boy Williamson's radio program on KWEM out of West Memphis. This led to steady engagements at the Sixteenth Avenue Grill in West Memphis\, and later to a ten-minute spot on black-staffed and managed Memphis radio station WDIA. "\;King's Spot\,"\; became so popular\, it was expanded and became the "\;Sepia Swing Club."\; Soon B.B. needed a catchy radio name. What started out as Beale Street Blues Boy was shortened to Blues Boy King\, and eventually B.B. King.
In the mid-1950s\, while B.B. was performing at a dance in Twist\, Arkansas\, a few fans became unruly. Two men got into a fight and knocked over a kerosene stove\, setting fire to the hall. B.B. raced outdoors to safety with everyone else\, then realized that he left his beloved $30 acoustic guitar inside\, so he rushed back inside the burning building to retrieve it\, narrowly escaping death. When he later found out that the fight had been over a woman named Lucille\, he decided to give the name to his guitar to remind him never to do a crazy thing like fight over a woman. Ever since\, each one of B.B.'s trademark Gibson guitars has been called Lucille.
Soon after his number one hit\, "\;Three O'Clock Blues\,"\; B.B. began touring nationally. In 1956\, B.B. and his band played an astonishing 342 one-night stands. From the chitlin circuit with its small-town cafes\, juke joints\, and country dance halls to rock palaces\, symphony concert halls\, universities\, resort hotels and amphitheaters\, nationally and internationally\, B.B. has become the most renowned blues musician of the past 40 years.
Over the years\, B.B. has developed one of the world's most identifiable guitar styles. He borrowed from Blind Lemon Jefferson\, T-Bone Walker and others\, integrating his precise and complex vocal-like string bends and his left hand vibrato\, both of which have become indispensable components of rock guitarist's vocabulary. His economy\, his every-note-counts phrasing\, has been a model for thousands of players\, from Eric Clapton and George Harrison to Jeff Beck. B.B. has mixed traditional blues\, jazz\, swing\, mainstream pop and jump into a unique sound. In B.B.'s words\, "\;When I sing\, I play in my mind\; the minute I stop singing orally\, I start to sing by playing Lucille."\;
In 1968\, B.B. played at the Newport Folk Festival and at Bill Graham's Fillmore West on bills with the hottest contemporary rock artists of the day who idolized B.B. and helped to introduce him to a young white audience. In ``69\, B.B. was chosen by the Rolling Stones to open 18 American concerts for them\; Ike and Tina Turner also played on 18 shows.
B.B. was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 1984 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. He received NARAS' Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award in 1987\, and has received honorary doctorates from Tougaloo(MS) College in 1973\; Yale University in 1977\; Berklee College of Music in 1982\; Rhodes College of Memphis in 1990\; Mississippi Valley State University in 2002 and Brown University in 2007. In 1992\, he received the National Award of Distinction from the University of Mississippi.
In 1991\, B.B. King's Blues Club opened on Beale Street in Memphis\, and in 1994\, a second club was launched at Universal CityWalk in Los Angeles. A third club in New York City's Times Square opened in June 2000 and most recently two clubs opened at Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut in January 2002. In 1996\, the CD-Rom On The Road With B.B. King\: An Interactive Autobiography was released to rave reviews. Also in 1996\, B.B.'s autobiography\, "\;Blues All Around Me"\; (written with David Ritz for Avon Books) was published. In a similar vein\, Doubleday published "\;The Arrival of B.B. King"\; by Charles Sawyer\, in 1980.
B.B. continues to tour extensively\, averaging over 250 concerts per year around the world. Classics such as "\;Payin' The Cost To Be The Boss\,"\; "\;The Thrill Is Gone\,"\; How Blue Can You Get\,"\; "\;Everyday I Have The Blues\,"\; and "\;Why I Sing The Blues"\; are concert (and fan) staples. Over the years\, the Grammy Award-winner has had two #1 R&\;B hits\, 1951's "\;Three O'Clock Blues\,"\; and 1952's "\;You Don't Know Me\,"\; and four #2 R&\;B hits\, 1953's "\;Please Love Me\,"\; 1954's "\;You Upset Me Baby\,"\; 1960's "\;Sweet Sixteen\, Part I\,"\; and 1966's "\;Don't Answer The Door\, Part I."\; B.B.'s most popular crossover hit\, 1970's "\;The Thrill Is Gone\,"\; went to #15 pop.
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Pedro Fernandez is one of the most beloved singers of his generation and is undoubtedly Mexico’s crown prince of ranchera music. With a career that expands over three decades\, Fernandez has achieved success not only in the music business but also in movies and television.
Pedro Fernandez was born Jose Martin Cuevas Cobos in Guadalajara\, Jalisco\, Mexico. He adopted his stage name from his musical idols\, Pedro Infante and Vicente Fernandez. At age 7\, Pedro made his debut as an actor in the classic movie “La Niña de la Mochila Azul\,” which gave him the opportunity to record his first album with the title song to the movie. “La de la Mochila Azul” became his most recognizable and popular song\, which made him an international star. Since then he has starred in many Mexican films and soap operas\, but is best known for his numerous Latin hits such as “Mi Forma De Sentir” and “La Mujer Que Amas.” During his 30-year career\, Pedro has sold over 4 million albums\, received numerous gold and platinum records all over Latin America\, and participated in many motion pictures and television specials.
Pedro Fernandez will be appearing with all his mariachi and show for one night only on Saturday\, October 18th at the fabulous Legends Theater at the new Route 66 Casino Hotel. Pedro\, along with his mariachis\, are a must see show.
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With hitmaker Irv Gotti at the helm\, Ashanti blasted into the urban music scene in 2002\, topping the charts with multiple singles at once. She quickly became a sensation\, gracing the covers of magazines and dominating urban radio. Ashanti built her reputation with duets\, where she would complement an already popular rapper — Ja Rule ("\;Always on Time"\;)\, Fat Joe ("\;What's Luv?"\;)\, the Notorious B.I.G. ("\;Unfoolish"\;) — contrasting the tough-guy male perspective with her own. It didn't take the young vocalist long to make a name for herself though\: her debut album topped the Billboard album chart just as her debut solo single\, "\;Foolish\,"\; was topping the Hot 100 chart. Her presence was inescapable.
Ashanti's overnight jump to superstardom followed that of Ja Rule\, a similar urban music sensation helmed by Gotti. The New York producer took notice of Ashanti initially because of her beauty\, dancing\, and acting. She trained as a dancer at the Bernice Johnson Cultural Arts Center\, learning a number of dance styles. She danced most notably in Disney's Polly\, which starred Phylicia Rashad\, and also appeared in a number of big-name music videos\, in addition to other dance work. As an actress\, she made a name for herself with roles in Spike Lee's Malcolm X and Who's da Man before that. The multi-talented vocalist was causing quite a stir\, and Gotti did what he could to bring her into his Murder Inc. fold. After showcasing her swooning voice on Big Pun's "\;How We Roll"\; and the Fast and Furious soundtrack — both in 2001 — Gotti put Ashanti to work on her debut album\, which he produced.
Success came quickly. A duet with Ja Rule\, "\;Always on Time\,"\; hit number one on Billboard's Hot 100 chart in early 2002 just as a duet with Fat Joe\, "\;What's Luv?\,"\; was creeping toward the same number one position. These two airplay-heavy singles set the stage perfectly for Ashanti's self-titled debut release. The album's lead single\, "\;Foolish\,"\; raced up the Hot 100 chart\, entering the Top Ten in March alongside "\;Always on Time"\; and "\;What's Luv?\,"\; giving her three Top Ten songs in the same week\, including the number one and two positions — a quite spectacular feat. And then Ashanti's album debuted at number one on the album chart\, selling an astounding 500\,000-plus copies in its first week. With all this chart-topping\, Ashanti set some sales records and her success continued. Gotti readied a remix of "\;Foolish\,"\; titled "\;Unfoolish\,"\; that featured the Notorious B.I.G. and again overtook urban radio\, where no artist was more omnipresent throughout 2002 than Ashanti.
She returned the following year with Chapter II\, which likewise topped the Billboard album chart on the heels of its hot lead single\, "\;Rock Wit U (Awww Baby)."\; The album's success was somewhat eclipsed\, however\, by all the negative drama surrounding the Murder Inc. camp at the time (i.e.\, the FBI investigation and the G-Unit feuding). A Christmas album followed late that year\, and Concrete Rose appeared in December 2004. Though she remained with The Inc. for 2008's The Declaration\, she sought out a number of producers outside the label's in-house team.
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