Out of this, he made Ray Charles.” “Man, did he uplift souls,” said Dion DiMucci, who played with Charles at Harlem’s Apollo Theater in the late ’50s. “Guys like me would look at him ...

"He kicked country music forward 50 years. Before him ... That impact is the backbone of the I Can't Stop Loving You: Ray Charles and Country Music exhibit that opens for a 21-month run next ...

The battle between sin and salvation, between Saturday-night revels and Sunday-morning sanctity, rages at the heart of American popular music, But for Ray Charles, those combating urges were one ...

The Ray Charles we heard on “Georgia On My Mind ... Ronnie Hawkins And The Hawks were playing it in the ’50s, and years later, after they’d become the Band, they recorded a version ...

LOS ANGELES — Shortly before Christmas 2002, Ray Charles called a meeting of his 12 children at a hotel near Los Angeles International Airport. Ten children, ranging in age from 16 to 50 ...

American musical icon Ray Charles died Thursday of complications ... But over his more than 50 years in show business, Charles built a career that defied genre, bringing his soulful voice ...