• Ray Charles Robinson (23 Eylül 1930 - 10 Haziran 2004), Amerikalı piyanist, müzisyen, ritim ve blues ustası.
  • After the birth of the child, Ray Charles, she and the infant Charles returned to Greenville.
  • Ray Charles® was a legendary musician often called the “Genius”, who pioneered the genre of soul music during the 1950s.
  • The vision of The Ray Charles Foundation is to instill in the youth of America that “there is no challenge too great one cannot overcome.”
  • Ray Charles was able to combine numbers of styles such as rythem and blues, gospel, blues and the influences from jazz and country were hearable in his music.
  • Whatever it was, Ray Charles revolutionized American music and was catapulted to legendary status by the time he died in Beverly Hills at age 73.
  • Ray Charles' 1960 hit "Georgia On My Mind" was the first of his three career No. 1 hits.
  • Nicknamed "The Genius," Ray Charles combined R&B, gospel, and blues to pioneer a new style known as soul in the '50s and '60s.
  • It was the way Ray Charles melded the passion of gospel with the pain of the blues, as both a vocalist and pianist, that prompted Frank Sinatra to call him “the...