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Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. He is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century and was often referred to by contemporaries as "The Genius". Among friends and fellow musicians, Charles preferred being called "Brother Ray". He lost his vision as a child, possibly due to glaucoma, and consequently wore dark glasses.
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entertainment · American singer, songwriter and pianist (1930–2004) · pianist · composer · singer-songwriter · singer · jazz musician · vocalist · music arranger · recording artist · soul musician · musician · also Ray Charles, Ray Charles Robinson/Raymond Charles Robinson Peter, Charles
Born 23 September 1930 · Died 10 June 2004 · Q544387
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2026· 28 entries
Town & Country Magazine: King Charles Was Only Told About Harry and Meghan’s UK Move a Few Days Ago
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People.com: King Charles Learned of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Move Back to the U.K. Days Ago
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The IX Sports: How taking a risk paid off for Kaila Charles and the Valkyries
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The Augusta Press: Former Georgia Senate Majority Leader Charles Walker dies
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital: Charles W.M. Roberts, MD, PhD, named president and CEO of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
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Published video “Come Rain or Come Shine”.
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The Guardian: King Charles and Prince William face £10m energy upgrade bill for estates
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Published video “I Believe to My Soul”.
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Published video “Drown in My Own Tears”.
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Published video “I'll Drown in My Own Tears (Remastered)”.
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Published video “The Midnight Hour (Remastered)”.
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Published video “That's Enough (Remastered)”.
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Published video “Losing Hand (Remastered)”.
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Published video “Lonely Avenue (Remastered)”.
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Published video “Early in the Morning (Remastered)”.
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Published video “Heartbreaker (Remastered)”.
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Published video “RayCharles - Next Door To The Blues (Official Visualizer)”.
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Published video “Ray Charles - Maybe It's Nothing At All (Official Visualizer)”.
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Published video “Ray Charles - I've Got A Tiger By The Tail (Official Visualizer)”.
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Published video “Ray Charles - I Like To Hear It Sometime (Official Visualizer)”.
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Published video “Ray Charles - I Don't Care (Official Visualizer)”.
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Published video “Ray Charles - Don't Let Her Know (Official Visualizer)”.
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Published video “Ray Charles - Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Official Visualizer)”.
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Published video “Ray Charles - All Night Long (Official Visualizer)”.
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Published video “Ray Charles - You Are My Sunshine (Official Video)”.
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Published video “Ray Charles | Don't Set Me Free | Official Video”.
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2025· 1 entry
Dollars) annual advance, higher royalties than before, and eventual ownership of his master tapes—a very valuable and lucrative deal at the time
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2023· 1 entry
In its revised list for the "200 Greatest Singers of All Time", Charles was replaced at the No
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2022· 2 entries
Was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, as well as the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame
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Charles was posthumously inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, the third African-American to be inducted after Charley Pride (2000) and Deford Bailey (2005)
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2019· 2 entries
Awarded Blues Hall of Fame for I've Got a Woman (2019).
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Released album “The Platinum Collection”.
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2018· 1 entry
Released album “Rooftop Storys”.
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2017· 1 entry
The Guardian: Family life: Dad cooking the Christmas fry-up; Hit the Road, Jack by Ray Charles; Grandmama’s boozy truffles
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2016· 1 entry
The Guardian: Barack Obama shows off his singing skills at Ray Charles tribute – video
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2015· 2 entries
The Guardian: Ray Charles: 'Genius? That's nothing to be ashamed of' – a classic interview
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Charles was inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame
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2012· 1 entry
The Guardian: Ray Charles – I Can't Stop Loving You | Simon Hoggart
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2010· 3 entries
The Guardian: Lost Johnny Cash and Ray Charles duet surfaces
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Released album “Die Größte Hits von Ray Charles”.
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A $20 million, 76,000 sq ft (7,100 m2) facility named the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center and Music Academic Building, opened at Morehouse
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2009· 2 entries
Released album “The Singles Collection 1952-1958 Plus”.
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Released album “What’d I Say”.
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2008· 1 entry
Released album “Saga All Stars: Hallelujah I Love Her So / Selected Singles 1955-1957”.
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2007· 1 entry
Ray Charles Plaza was opened in Albany, Georgia, with a revolving, lighted bronze sculpture of Charles seated at a piano
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2006· 2 entries
Released album “Ray Sings, Basie Swings”.
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And has provided financial donations to numerous institutions involved in hearing loss research and education
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2005· 4 entries
Released album “Genius & Friends”.
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Released album “Soul of a Man”.
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Released album “Ray Charles - Great Moments 9”.
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Released album “Soul & Blues”.
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2004· 10 entries
Charles was honored with a Google Doodle on what would have been his 74th birthday
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Released album “Genius Loves Company”.
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Died 2004-06-10.
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At the dedication of his music studio as a historic landmark in Los Angeles
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“You better live every day like your last because one day you're going to be right.”
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Charles was inducted to the National Black Sports & Entertainment Hall of Fame
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“Music has been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.”
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“Variant: What is soul? It's like electricity — we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.”
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Released album “Let the Good Times Roll”.
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“Soul is when you take a song and make it a part of you — a part that's so true, so real, people think it must have happened to you. … It's like electricity — we don't really know what it is, do we? But it's a force that can light a room. Soul is like electricity, like a spirit, a drive, a power.”
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2003· 4 entries
Charles was awarded an honorary degree by Dillard University, and upon his death he endowed a professorship of African-American culinary history at the school, the first such chair in the nation
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Headlined the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in Washington, D
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Charles presented Van Morrison with Morrison's award upon being inducted in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the two sang Morrison's song "Crazy Love" (the performance appears on Morrison's 2007 album The Best of Van Mo
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Charles performed "Georgia on My Mind" and "America the Beautiful" at a televised annual banquet of electronic media journalists held in Washington, D
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2002· 3 entries
Released album “Thanks for Bringing Love Around Again”.
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Released album “Alone in the City”.
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Released album “Don't Put All Your Dreams in One Basket”.
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2001· 1 entry
Morehouse College honored Charles with the Candle Award for Lifetime Achievement in Arts and Entertainment, and later that same year granted him an honorary doctor of humane letters
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Library of Congress Living Legend (2000).
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1998· 2 entries
Awarded Polar Music Prize (1998).
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Released album “Ray Charles & Friends”.
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1995· 2 entries
Released album “It’s a Blues Thing”.
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Released album “Strong Love Affair”.
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1993· 4 entries
Won National Medal of Arts (1993).
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Awarded lifetime achievement award presented by Songwriters Hall of Fame in Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel (1993).
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Released album “My World”.
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Charles was awarded the National Medal of Arts
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Florida Artists Hall of Fame (1992).
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1991· 1 entry
Released album “Ray Charles in LA”.
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1990· 3 entries
Released album “Would You Believe?”.
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Charles was given an honorary doctorate of fine arts by the University of South Florida
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And won Charles and Khan a Grammy for their duet
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1989· 3 entries
Released album “Porgy & Bess”.
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Released album “Soul Brothers / Soul Meeting”.
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Recorded a cover of the Southern All Stars' "Itoshi no Ellie" for a Japanese TV advertisement for the Suntory brand, releasing it in Japan as "Ellie My Love", where it reached No
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1988· 2 entries
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1988).
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Released album “Just Between Us”.
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1987· 2 entries
And 10 of his recordings have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame
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Was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
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1986· 6 entries
Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (1986).
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Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame presented by Quincy Jones (1986).
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Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (1986).
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Charles was one of the first inductees to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at its inaugural ceremony
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The Ray Charles Foundation maintains the mission statement of financially supporting institutions and organizations in the research of hearing disorders
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Released album “From the Pages of My Mind”.
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1985· 2 entries
Released album “The Spirit of Christmas”.
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Charles participated in the musical recording and video "We Are the World", a charity single recorded by the supergroup United Support of Artists (USA) for Africa
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1984· 2 entries
Released album “Friendship”.
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Released album “Do I Ever Cross Your Mind”.
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1983· 2 entries
Released album “Wish You Were Here Tonight”.
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Charles signed a contract with Columbia
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1981· 3 entries
Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1981).
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During an international boycott protesting that country's apartheid policy
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Charles was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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1980· 3 entries
Released album “Brother Ray Is at It Again!”.
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Charles performed in the musical film The Blues Brothers
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Released album “Brother Ray”.
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1979· 3 entries
Charles was one of the first musicians born in the state to be inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame
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Released album “Ain’t It So”.
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Released album “Le Disque D'or de Ray Charles”.
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1978· 3 entries
Charles stated in his 1978 autobiography, Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story, that he became hooked on women after losing his virginity at 12 years old to a woman who was about 20. "Cigarettes and smack [heroin] are the two truly addictive habits I've known.
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Released album “Love & Peace”.
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“Own Story, that he became hooked on women after losing his virginity at 12 years old to a woman who was about 20.”
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1977· 2 entries
Released album “True to Life”.
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Reunited with Ahmet Ertegun and re-signed to Atlantic Records, for which he recorded the album True to Life, remaining with his old label until 1980
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1976· 1 entry
Released album “Georgia On My Mind And Other Great Songs”.
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1975· 4 entries
Released album “My Kind of Jazz, Part 3”.
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Ray Charles was inducted into the American Academy of Achievement and presented with the Golden Plate Award and the Academy of Achievement gold medal
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Released album “Renaissance”.
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Released album “The World of Ray Charles Vol. 2”.
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1974· 4 entries
Released album “Ray Charles, Volume II”.
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Released album “Come Live With Me”.
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Released album “The World of Ray Charles”.
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Charles left ABC Records and recorded several albums on his own label, Crossover Records
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1973· 3 entries
Margie Hendrix, the mother of Ray's son Charles Wayne Hendrix, died at 38 years of age, which led to Ray having to care for the child
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Released album “Star‐Collection”.
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Released album “All Time Great Country and Western Hits”.
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1972· 3 entries
Released album “Through the Eyes of Love”.
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Released album “A Message From the People”.
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Released album “Jazz Number II”.
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1971· 2 entries
Released album “A 25th Anniversary in Show Business Salute to Ray Charles”.
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Released album “Volcanic Action of My Soul”.
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1970· 3 entries
Released album “Love Country Style”.
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Released album “My Kind of Jazz”.
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Released album “The Best of Ray Charles”.
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1969· 2 entries
Released album “I’m All Yours Baby!”.
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Released album “Doing His Thing”.
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1968· 1 entry
Released album “A Portrait of Ray”.
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1967· 4 entries
Released album “Invites You to Listen”.
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Had a top-20 hit with another ballad, "Here We Go Again"
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Released album “A Man and His Soul”.
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Released album “Ray Charles”.
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1966· 3 entries
Released album “Ray’s Moods”.
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Released album “Crying Time”.
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With a series of hits composed with Ashford & Simpson and Jo Armstead, including the dance number "I Don't Need No Doctor" and "Let's Go Get Stoned", which became his first No
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1965· 2 entries
Released album “The Sensational Ray Charles”.
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Released album “Together Again”.
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1964· 6 entries
Released album “Have a Smile With Me”.
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Released album “Sweet & Sour Tears”.
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Charles's career was halted once more after he was arrested for a third time for possession of heroin
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Released album “The Ray Charles Story, Volume 4”.
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Margie Hendrix was kicked out of the Raelettes after a big argument
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Released album “The Incomparable Ray Charles”.
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1963· 1 entry
Released album “Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul”.
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1962· 8 entries
Released album “Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Volume 2”.
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Released album “Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music”.
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Released album “The Ray Charles Story”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “The Ray Charles Story, Volume 2”.
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Founded his record label, Tangerine, which ABC-Paramount promoted and distributed
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Released album “The Ray Charles Story, Volume One”.
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Released album “The Ray Charles Story, Volume 3”.
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1961· 10 entries
Released album “Do the Twist! With Ray Charles”.
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Released album “The Genius Sings the Blues”.
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Released album “The Genius After Hours”.
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Released album “Ray Charles and Betty Carter”.
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Shortly after the release of the hit song "Georgia on My Mind" (1960), the Albany, Georgia-born musician was scheduled to perform at a dance at Bell Auditorium in Augusta, but cancelled the show after learning from stude
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Charles had expanded his small road ensemble to a big band, partly as a response to increasing royalties and touring fees, becoming one of the few black artists to cross over into mainstream pop with such a level of crea
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Released album “The Original Ray Charles”.
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Released album “Soul Meeting”.
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Released album “Dedicated to You”.
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Released album “Genius + Soul = Jazz”.
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1960· 3 entries
Charles received national acclaim and four Grammy Awards, including two for "Georgia on My Mind" (Best Vocal Performance Single Record or Track, Male, and Best Performance by a Pop Single Artist)
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Released album “Fathead”.
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Released album “The Genius Hits the Road”.
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1959· 1 entry
Released album “The Genius of Ray Charles”.
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1958· 3 entries
Released album “Yes Indeed!”.
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Released album “Soul Brothers”.
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Charles and the Raelettes performed for the famed Cavalcade of Jazz concert produced by Leon Hefflin Sr
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1957· 2 entries
Released album “The Great Ray Charles”.
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Released album “Ray Charles (Hallelujah I Love Her So)”.
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1955· 1 entry
Had hits with "This Little Girl of Mine" and "A Fool for You"
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1954· 1 entry
Charles recorded "I've Got a Woman"
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1953· 1 entry
"Mess Around" became Charles's first small hit for Atlantic; during the next year, he had hits with "It Should've Been Me" and "Don't You Know"
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1950· 2 entries
And spent the next few years touring with the blues musician Lowell Fulson as Fulson's musical director
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Charles's performance in a Miami hotel impressed record executive and producer Henry Stone, who went on to record a Ray Charles Rockin' record, which did not achieve popularity
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1947· 1 entry
Charles moved to Tampa, where he held two jobs, including one as a pianist for Charles Brantley's Honey Dippers
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1945· 1 entry
Studied at Florida School for the Deaf and Blind (1937–1945).
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Born 1930-09-23.
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The song was Charles's first work with Sid Feller, who produced, arranged and conducted the recording
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