The doodle is illustrated by very little Rock-based guest creative person Steve Herbert Spencer and animated by Brooklyn-based guest animator Nayeli Lavanderos.
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| Google honors blues legend B.B. King with new Doodle. (Photo: Google) |
On the occasion of blues and jazz music icon BB King's 94th birthday, Google honored the late legend with a doodle on the program platform. The doodle is illustrated by very little Rock-based guest creative person Steve philosopher and animated by Brooklyn-based guest animator Nayeli Lavanderos. Google doodle dedicated to King conjointly options associate animated video summarizing his life and times.
The 15-time Grammy winner and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame were born Riley B. King to sharecroppers regarding twenty miles (32 km) from Indianola within the little Delta community of Berclair, Mississippi, on Sept. 16, 1925.
After his folks break up, he was raised by his grannie within the hill country city of Kilmichael.
He moved to Indianola once he was seventeen and spent several of his childhood there, driving a tractor on a plantation and enjoying gospel and blues music in churches and clubs, on street corners and also the radio, before moving to Memphis in 1948.
King unbroken an aim metropolis, wherever he died last week at the age of eighty-nine in 2014 following a quick health problem, however, spent a lot of of his life on the road. He competes for an associate annual homecoming concert in Indianola, that he referred to as his town, once a year since 1980.
He was hierarchic by Rolling Stone Magazine as No. half-dozen on its 2011 list of the one hundred greatest guitarists and regarded a serious influence on alternative blues and rock guitarists.