“Seven Spanish Angels” is one of the most iconic country duets ever recorded, a truly haunting, Gospel-tinged ballad performed by Willie Nelson and Ray Charles in 1984. The song was written by Troy ...

Ray Charles enjoyed tremendous commercial success in country music in the mid-'80s with songs from his Friendship album, but his most long-lasting influence on the genre came 20 years earlier. The ...

In celebration of what would have been Ray Charles’ 90th birthday, the label he founded in 1962, Tangerine Records will release True Genius. This newly remastered, limited edition set includes 90 of ...

Charles died at his Beverly Hills home surrounded by family and friends, said spokesman Jerry Digney. Charles last public appearance was alongside Clint Eastwood on April 30, when the city of Los ...

Long before playlists, streaming algorithms, and AI-generated tunes, Ray Charles was already tearing up genre maps and putting his own spin on the American songbook in ways few artists dared. Country, ...

Nearly 60 years after his landmark Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music albums, Ray Charles is joining the Country Music Hall of Fame. The multi-genre icon, who died at the age of 73 in 2004, is ...

(BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., June 9th, 2004, 4 p.m.)-- Ray Charles, the Grammy-winning crooner who blended gospel and blues in such crowd-pleasers as "What'd I Say" and ballads like "Georgia on My Mind," ...