(ThyBlackMan.com) Ray Charles, affectionately known as Brother Ray, is one of the most influential musicians of all time. His ability to seamlessly blend blues, jazz, gospel, country, and R&B into an ...
Ray Charles Robinson, known the world over as multi-award-winning icon Ray Charles, may have departed this world, but his music endures thanks in part to the Ray Charles Foundation. Recently, the ...
LOS ANGELES -- Soul music legend Ray Charles returned to the U.S. pop charts Wednesday three months after his death as his final studio album, a collection of duets with fellow recording stars, opened ...
Each week in The Vinyl Vault, Ozarks First’s Parker Padgett and Tony Nguyen dive into a featured album, highlight standout tracks, and explore what makes it truly unique. The vinyl of the week this ...
If Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter receives a Grammy nomination for album of the year, which seems very likely, it won’t be the first time a genre-defying Black superstar has been nominated in that marquee ...
Ray Charles, the piano man with the bluesy voice who reshaped American music for a half-century, brought the essence of soul to country, jazz, rock, standards and every other style of music he touched ...
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - "I just do what I do." That's what Ray Charles told Billboard in June 2002 when asked to assess his role in music history. Of course, Charles' self-effacing response belies a ...
Musical icon Quincy Jones died Sunday night at his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles, surrounded by his family at 91. Jones, a 28-time Grammy winner, is renowned for his work with artists ...
From the Pointer Sisters to Darius Rucker, a brief history of those who paved the way for this moment. By John White, Larissa Anderson and Elisheba Ittoop When Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” arrives next ...