Google Today's front page graffiti is the image of a blues musician who performs electric guitar, stage name B.B. King, today is his 94th birthday, Google draws an animation that tracks his progress from the Mississippi plantation to the music star, and the background music uses his 1970 performance of "The Thrill Is Gone".
Born on September 16, 1925 on the Mississippi Delta Plantation, Riley B. King sang gospel music primarily before moving to Memphis. He was known as the "Beale Street Blues Boys" when he worked at radio station WDIA, a nickname that was later abbreviated to "Bee Bee" and later reduced to "B.B."
He is one of the greatest blues musicians of all time, nicknamed "The King of Blues" (The King of Blues). He founded and developed the technique of electric guitar string pushing and kneading strings, and in 2003, he was named one of the top 100 guitarists of Rolling Stone Magazine by Rolling Stone Magazine, and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
On May 14, 2015, B. B· King died in Las Vegas, USA, at the age of 89.
