FILE - BB King performs at "The Blues & Jazz" Gala Concert at the Kodak Theatre on Sunday Oct. 26, 2008 in Los Angeles.
JACKSON, MISS. —
The body of blues legend B.B. King will return next week to the Mississippi Delta where his life and career began.
In Memphis, Tennessee - where King won the nickname Beale Street Blues Boy - a tribute will be held May 27 before his body is driven to his hometown of Indianola, Mississippi.
A public viewing will be held on May 29 at the B.B. King Museum in Indianola, and the funeral will be May 30 at the nearby Bell Grove Missionary Baptist Church. The 15-time Grammy winner will be buried at the museum.
King was 89 when he died May 14 at home in Las Vegas.
A public viewing will be held Friday at Palm Mortuary West in Las Vegas. A private service for relatives is Saturday at the downtown Palm Mortuary chapel.
B.B. King Remembered
1/10Bluesman extraordinaire, B.B. King
2/10B.B. King performs for the inmates of Cook County (Chicago) Jail in Chicago, March 9, 1972.
3/10Blues musician B.B. King, left, James Cotton, center, and Muddy Waters perform together at radio city music hall in New York , June 29, 1979.
4/10Rock icon Eric Clapton, left, practices with Blues artist B.B. King for their performance at the 41st Annual Grammy Awards ceremony, Feb. 23, 1999 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
5/10Blues legend B.B. King, left, performs with Bo Diddley at the second anniversary celebration of B.B. King's Blues Club and Grill in New York, June 20, 2002.
6/10Blues legend B.B. King listens as electric guitar inventor Les Paul plays King's signature "Lucille" guitar during a jam session at the third anniversary celebration of the B.B. King Blues Club and Grill in New York's Times Square, June 17, 2003.
7/10President Bush, right, bestows the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Blues Musician B.B. King, center, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Dec. 15, 2006.
8/10B.B. King gestures to the crowd before receiving an honorary Doctor of Music degree during Brown University's 239th Commencement in Providence, R.I., May 27, 2007.
9/10FILE - BB King performs at "The Blues & Jazz" Gala Concert at the Kodak Theatre on Sunday Oct. 26, 2008 in Los Angeles.
10/10President Barack Obama waves to the crowd with musician B.B. King at the lighting of the National Christmas Tree at the Ellipse across from the White House in Washington, Dec. 9, 2010.
