Warren, of Slidell, has staged occasional Ray Charles tribute concerts since 2021 to standing audience ovations. At the Dew Drop, his high-energy show will also include a talented group of ...

Jon Batiste will be honored with the inaugural Ray Charles “Architect of Sound” Award at the Grammy Hall of Fame Gala, the Grammy Museum announced on Thursday. The honor, which builds on the ...

Jon Batiste has been selected as the recipient of the inaugural Ray Charles “Architect of Sound” Award. This distinguished honor broadens the enduring relationship between the Ray Charles ...

EVANGLINE PARISH, La. (KLFY) — After meeting for one day on March 26, the Grand Jury returned indictments on the case of Ray Charles Fontenot Jr. Ray was indicted on the charge of second-degree ...

The "Soul Bossa Nova" artist, who worked with acts including Michael Jackson, Ray Charles, Miles Davis, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra and Aretha Franklin, died in November at 91 years old of ...

Bill Murray became a household name on Saturday Night Live in the late 1970s at a time when the show was becoming the hot hosting and performing destination for stars that it is today. When ...

Ray's Hometown Bars (one in Lower East Side of Manhattan and another in Greenpoint, Brooklyn) are two such bars. When they asked me to create cocktails for them, the request was "Drinks that taste ...

Tom Fowler, the bassist best known for playing with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention as well as Ray Charles, died this week at the age of 73. Engineer and producer Dennis Moody confirmed ...

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 ...

Michael McDonald has looked back on an uncomfortable confrontation with Ray Charles, describing it as “one of the worst moments” in his life. It was the year 2000 and McDonald was being ...

Ray Charles’ Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music was nominated for the award in 1962. (Charles’ enduring classic lost to Vaughn Meader’s The First Family, a hit comedy album about the ...