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VATICAN CITY: Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle has been elected as the new president of Caritas Internationalis. He was nominated at the confederation’s 20th General Assembly in Rome. The Filipino prelate got 91 votes out of 133. Cardinal Tagle will replace Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga as president of Caritas Internationalis. |
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B.B. King believed anyone could play the blues, and that “as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.” But no one could play the blues like B.B. King, who died Thursday night at age 89 in Las Vegas, where he had been in hospice care. Although he kept performing well into his 80s, the.... |
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B.B. King believed anyone could play the blues, and that “as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.” But no one could play the blues like B.B. King, who died Thursday night at age 89 in Las Vegas, where he had been in hospice care. Although he kept performing well into his 80s, the.... |
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B.B. King, the legendary blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist, died Thursday in Las Vegas. He was 89 years old. Attorney Brent Bryson told The Associated Press that King died peacefully in his sleep at 9:40 p.m. local time at his home, where he had been in hospice care. Bryson added that funeral arrangements were being made. |
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King died peacefully in his sleep at 9.40pm Thursday, LA time (2.40pm AEST yesterday) Although he had continued to perform well into his 80s, the 15-time Grammy winner suffered from diabetes and had been in declining health over the past year. He collapsed during a concert in Chicago in October, later blaming dehydration and exhaustion. |
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The president issued a statement mourning the death of the blues legend which added: "The blues has lost its king, and America has lost a legend."
Mr Obama said King rose from a sharecropper's son to become "the ambassador who brought his all-American music to his country and the world". |
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B.B. King, who rose from poverty on a Mississippi Delta cotton plantation to become one of the most influential guitarists of the 20th century and an ambassador for American blues music, has died. He was 89. King died in his sleep at his home in Las Vegas late Thursday, the Associated Press said, citing his attorney, Brent Bryson. |
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His attorney, Brent Bryson, told The Associated Press that King died peacefully in his sleep at 9:40 p.m. PDT. He said funeral arrangements were underway. Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg confirmed the death. King's eldest surviving daughter Shirley King of the Chicago area said she was upset.... |
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"People all over the world have problems," he said. "And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die." Fellow travelers who took King up on that theory included Clapton, the British-born blues-rocker who collaborated with him on "Riding With the King," a best-seller that won a Grammy in 2000 for best traditional blues album. |
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B.B. King believed anyone could play the blues, and that "as long as people have problems, the blues can never die." But no one could play the blues like B.B. King, who died Thursday night at age 89 in Las Vegas, where he had been in hospice care. Although he kept performing well into his 80s, the.... |
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LAS VEGAS (AP) BB King, whose scorching guitar licks and heartfelt vocals made him the idol of generations of musicians and fans while earning him the nickname King of the Blues, died late Thursday at home in Las Vegas. He was 89. His attorney, Brent Bryson, told The Associated Press that King died peacefully in his sleep at 9:40 p. |
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