00:00He was born on a plantation, surrounded by cotton fields, silence, and struggle.
00:05His name was Riley B. King.
00:07The world would later know him by a different name, B.B. King, the king of the blues.
00:13Riley B. King was born in 1925 in Mississippi, into a life of poverty.
00:19As a child, he worked in cotton fields.
00:21He lost his mother at a young age.
00:24Life taught him pain early.
00:26Music became his shelter.
00:27He learned guitar slowly, carefully, not to impress, but to survive.
00:33In Memphis, he found a microphone.
00:35Radio changed everything.
00:37He became known as the Beale Street Blues Boy, shortened to B.B.
00:42For the first time, his sound traveled farther than his feet ever could.
00:46One night, a fire broke out during a show.
00:49B.B. King ran back inside to save his guitar.
00:52That guitar had a name, Lucille.
00:55From that moment on, his guitar was no longer just an instrument.
00:59It was a voice.
01:00Crying.
01:01Singing.
01:02Telling stories without words.
01:04B.B. King did not play fast.
01:06He played honest.
01:07Every note mattered.
01:09He bent strings the way others bent emotions.
01:12The world listened.
01:13And crowned him the king of the blues.
01:15B.B. King lived a long life.
01:17Long enough to see his music change the world.
01:20He passed away in 2015.
01:22Not as a forgotten man, but as a legend.
01:25His blues did not die with him.
01:27It learned how to breathe through others.
01:29Robert Johnson showed the world how...
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