Despite his passing 21 years ago, the legacy of Ray Charles lives on as his hometown celebrates what would have been his 95th ...

Brother Ray, the star’s biography, gave his fans and followers an inside perspective to his childhood and journey. Charles was born in Georgia in 1930, but shortly after his arrival, his parents moved ...

Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), better known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s ...

Ray Charles is best known for recording hit soul and R&B songs. His album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, recorded in the 60s, spent 14 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard pop albums chart.

The producers who brought Ray Charles’ biography to movie screens three years ago are now doing the same for theater. “Ray Charles Live! -- A New Musical” will round out the Pasadena Playhouse’s 2007 ...

Ray Charles Robinson, born on September 23, 1930, in Albany, Georgia, and better known to the world as Ray Charles, was a musical prodigy and pioneer whose impact on the music world transcended genres ...

Ray Charles arrived in Seattle a teenager with a name and a voice short of where he was headed. Lanky and handsome, the 16-year-old known as R.C. Robinson copied the style and singing of silky smooth ...

There is exactly one great moment in Ray, director Taylor Hackford’s openhearted but literal-minded biopic of Ray Charles. It occurs midway through the film. By then, we’ve seen how thoroughly Jamie ...

Lately, a lot more attention is being paid to mental health, and celebrities are using their considerable platforms as a place to reshape the conversation we have around stress, trauma, and resources ...

More than 20 years after the icon's death, Exceleration Music's John Burk is reissuing four classic Charles albums under his original Tangerine label. By Steve Knopper While producing what became Ray ...

Brandon Victor Dixon, fresh off his well-received perf in “The Scottsboro Boys,” will portray Ray Charles in “Unchain My Heart,” the Charles bio-tuner set to open on Broadway in the fall. Dixon (“The ...