Ray Charles [7174]
Gender: Male
Popularity: 1.1823
Birthplace: Albany, Georgia USA
Birthday: 1930-09-23
Deathday: 2004-06-10
Age: 73 years
Movies: 61
Links: Homepage, IMDB
Biography: Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), better known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums. While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company. Frank Sinatra called Charles “the only true genius in show business.” Rolling Stone ranked Charles number 10 on their list of "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" in 2004, and number two on their November 2008 list of "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". In honoring Charles, Billy Joel noted: "This may sound like sacrilege, but I think Ray Charles was more important than Elvis Presley. I don't know if Ray was the architect of rock & roll, but he was certainly the first guy to do a lot of things . . . Who the hell ever put so many styles together and made it work?" Description above from the Wikipedia article Ray Charles, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​

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2003-10-04
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2004-08-24
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2002-01-01
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2001-11-13
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2001-03-20
Blue's Big Music
2000-10-03
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Spy Hard
1996-05-24
Sinatra: 80 Year
1995-12-14
The History of R
1995-03-06
The World of Jim
1994-11-23
Love Affair
1994-10-21
Sesame Street |
1994-05-18
Ray Alexander: A
1994-05-13
Willie Nelson: T
1993-05-22
The Muppets Cele
1990-11-21
Listen Up: The L
1990-10-05
Limit Up
1989-11-02
Legends of Rock
1989-01-01
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1988-05-27
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1987-03-13
WrestleMania 2
1986-04-07
The Muppets: A C
1986-01-21
The Statue of Li
1985-10-26
We Are the World
1985-01-28
I Love Quincy
1984-03-23
Ray Charles: A M
1983-10-30
Hallelujah Gospe
1983-02-07
Lynda Carter's C
1981-05-11
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1980-09-24
Ray Charles At T
1980-07-13
The Blues Brothe
1980-06-16
NBC Salutes the
1978-09-13
The Second Barry
1978-02-24
The Beatles Fore
1977-11-24
Barbra Streisand
1973-11-02
Ray Charles - La
1968-10-08
The Big T.N.T. S
1965-12-22
Ballad in Blue
1965-02-18
Swingin' Along
1961-04-16