The American singer and guitarist, 69, who visited Moscow in 1979, is performing at 7 P.M. on Dec.13 and 14 on the last leg of a European tour.
Tickets for the show at the 1,800-seat hall located at 28 Komsomolsky Prospekt will cost between 35,000 and 80,000 rubles ($11.00 to $25.00), said the show's promoter, Yakov Bezrodny.
"It is a very popular kind of music," said Bezrodny. "For the Russian people, he is a star known as the King of the Blues."
King, who was born and raised in Mississippi, became a star in the 1950s on black performance circuits.
His clean-picking, sparse guitar-playing style has influenced rock performers as disparate as Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton.
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