For more than half a century, B.B. King has defined the blues for a worldwide audience. The winner of 13 Grammy Awards and 22 W.C. Handy (Blues Foundation) Awards has released over 50 albums including four Gold albums, two Platinum albums and one Multi-Platinum album. His R&B Chart-topping hits include Three OClock Blues, You Dont Know Me, Please Love Me, You Upset Me Baby, Sweet Sixteen, Part I, and Dont Answer The Door, Part I. His most popular crossover hit, The Thrill Is Gone, reached #15 on the Top-40 Chart in 1970.

B.B. has been inducted into Halls of Fame (Blues Foundation, Rock & Roll, Performance Magazine and N.A.A.C.P. Image Awards); received numerous Lifetime Achievement Awards (Grammy Awards, Songwriters Hall of Fame, Orville H. Gibson/Gibson Guitar, Blues Foundation, MOBO Awards and Congress of Racial Equality {CORE)}; and is featured on several Walks of Fame (Rock Walk, Amsterdam Walk of Fame and Hollywood Walk of Fame). He has many film and TV appearances to his credit along with radio and TV commercials, soundtrack albums and even an MTV Video Music Award for Best Video From a Film in 1988/89.