2. Originally from the U.S. African-American
communities, developed through the
spiritual, prayer songs, work
songs, rhymes, English, Scottish and Irish ballads
narrated and shouts of field.
The blues influenced later American and Western popular
music in general, becoming part of musical genres as
ragtime, jazz, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, rock and roll,
funk, heavy metal, hip-hop, country and pop songs .

4. B.B. KIND
Riley B. King better known as B. B. King (by its former nickname
"The Street Blues Boy King"), born September 16, 1925 in Itta
Bena, Mississippi, is a famous blues guitarist, blues and jazz
composer.
According to Rolling Stone, King is the greatest guitarist
alive, and ranks third among the "100 greatest guitarists of all
time

5. MUDDY WATERS
McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1915 - April
30, 1983), better known as Muddy Waters, was an
American blues musician generally considered the
Father of Chicago Blues.
Born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi. It was recorded for the
first time on a plantation in the Mississippi Delta by Alan
Lomax for the Library of Congress in 1940. He later moved
to Chicago, Illinois, where he changed his acoustic guitar to
electric guitar, becoming increasingly popular with black
musicians of the time

6. Robert Johnson born Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911 - August 16, 1938)
was a singer, songwriter and guitarist of blues known as "The King of the
Delta blues." His recordings from 1936 to 1937 show a remarkable
combination of singing, guitar skills and talent in composition that
influenced generations of musicians, despite only having left a record of 29
songs.
is considered the "Grandfather of Rock and Roll". "The most important
blues musician who ever lived". He held the 5 th position in the list of
"100 greatest guitarists of all time" by Rolling Stone. He was inducted
into the Hall of Rock and Roll fame in 1986 in the category of "Early
Influence" (early Influences).

7. Memphis Slim (September 3, 1915 – February 24, 1988) was an American
blues pianist, singer, and composer. He led a series of bands that, reflecting
the popular appeal of jump blues, included saxophones, bass, drums, and
piano. A song he first cut in 1947, "Every Day I Have the Blues", has become
a blues standard, recorded by many other artists. He made over 500
recordings.

8. Hubert Sumlin (born November 16, 1931) is an American
Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist and singer, best known
for his celebrated work, from 1955, as guitarist in Howlin' Wolf's
band.

9. Koko Taylor (September 28, 1928 - June 3, 2009) was a
blues singer from the United States known as "Queen of the
Blues. For rough and powerful voice and style based on
traditional blues.

10. BESSIE SMITH
Bessie Smith (Chattanooga, Tennessee, April 15, 1894 -
Clarksdale, Mississippi, September 26, 1937), known as the "Empress
of the Blues" was the most popular blues singer of the '20s and '30s
and most influential the singers that followed.
Bessie Smith combined an unusual sense of rhythm with extreme
sensitivity to the tone and diction right, a feature that allowed him
to reach a wide audience. His way of articulating notes and words,
using a variety of rhythmic and tonal approaches, provides an
elegant interpretations and some semblance of improvisation