But to hear Charles tell it, his most traumatic experience was the death of his mother, Aretha. Many of the supporting characters (such as Ray’s saxophonist, Fathead Newman) are portrayed as ...

One of these is a wonderful new treatment of “You Don’t Know Me” with just piano. I had feared that “Ray” would whitewash Charles’s character, as movie biopics tend to do. But James L. White’s ...

Directed by Taylor Hackford, the 2004 film chronicles Ray Charles’s journey from his early years in rural Georgia to becoming an international music icon, all while facing personal struggles ...

At 69, the sculptor Charles Ray is having a moment ... But Ray’s elaborate meditations on Huck Finn and Jim, the main characters in Mark Twain’s classic novel, provoke the same nonplussed ...

Performing the show with Charles' signature flair and energy, Brawner describes the show as "a concert/theater piece." In between songs, Brawner slips into the character of Ray Charles to educate ...

Ray Charles' Ray-Bans, his celebrity trademark, are held in the collections of the National Museum of American History. NMAH/SI Ray Charles, who died at age 73 on June 10, 2004, lives on in ...

He has nine movie or TV show acting credits to his name, according to IMDB, and had one pretty notable role as a young Ray Charles in the ... hard and how to be in character for a scene, but ...

(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 ...

Charles Ray installing his gleaming “Reclining Woman ... In “Huck and Jim,” the flesh of both characters is transmuted into stainless steel. Jim stands upright. Huck is bent at the ...

This daringly streamlined show surveys the five-decade career of the remarkable American sculptor Charles Ray in a mere 19 ... “Huck and Jim,” the main characters of “The Adventures of ...

The story of Ray Charles (played by Jamie Foxx), music legend. Told in his adult life with flashbacks to his youth we see his humble origins in Florida, his turbulent childhood, which included ...