President Barack Obama has penned a touching tribute to B.B. King, the legendary bluesman who died last night at age 89. The President wrote on his Twitter Page “The blues has lost its king, and America has lost a legend,”
In February 2012, B.B. King was among the blues greats recruited to perform for the president’s PBS special, In Performance at the White House: Red, White and Blues.
Obama recalled the event “Three years ago, Michelle and I hosted a blues concert at the White House, I hadn’t expected that I’d be talked into singing a few lines of ‘Sweet Home Chicago’ with B.B. by the end of the night, but that was the kind of effect his music had, and still does.”
