The Ray Charles we heard on “Georgia On My Mind” was 30. He sounded 300. By 1960, Charles had been working as a musician for 13 years, playing around with every form of popular music that ...

Norah Jones shares a previously unreleased Ray Charles cover "Hallelujah, I Love Him So" from the ‘Come Away With Me’ anniversary reissue.

The South Dallas home singer Ray Charles lived in at 2642 Eugene St. in the late 1950s is empty while its owner, who bought the house less than two years ago, figures out what to do with it.(Irwin ...

Ray Charles just can't stop. At 72, he's still making music that grabs the soul. Recently, he had West Wing-tips tapping at the White House Radio & Television Correspondents dinner.

Charles recorded “What’d I Say” in New York City a short time later, and the song was released on June 8th, 1959. It would go on to become Ray Charles’ first official gold record.

The repeated message of "Genius: A Night for Ray Charles" is that his place in American music is guaranteed by his melding of R&B, gospel, jazz and country. One can't argue with that notion, but ...

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 Ray Charles’s latest show of paintings, about race, gender and sexuality — and his first in New York in more than 20 years — opened recently at New York’s Templon gallery.

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 ...

His legacy started a decade earlier, when Motown tried to shape the 11-year-old blind singer and harmonica player into a junior version of Ray Charles.

Charles came from Georgia, but “Georgia On My Mind” isn’t a simple love letter to home. It’s complicated. The Civil Rights struggle was in full swing in 1960, and Charles’ home state was ...