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As a rock and roll, rhythm & blues, soul, blues, jazz, country and pop musician he helped to shape the sound of rhythm & blues. He brought a soulful sound to everything from country music ("I Can't Stop Loving You") to rock and roll ("Mess Around"), to pop standards to a now-iconic rendition of "America The Beautiful." Frank Sinatra called him "the only genius in the business." |
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Latest News in english
about Ray Charles
Strombo Reveals Details Of New CBC Radio Show Date: 06 Nov 2009
ChartAttack.com -
Do you like the music of Timber Timbre, Lamb Of God, Tom Waits and Ray Charles? Then George Stroumboulopoulos has a radio show for you. The host of CBC TV's The Hour relaunches his Strombo Show this Sunday (Nov. 8) on CBC Radio 2. It's an ambitious project: four-hours of commercial-free music, interviews and live performance broadcast from his home's basement studio, with a focus on genre ...
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Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra plays tribute to Ray Charles and Quincy Jones Date: 06 Nov 2009
Seattle Times -
Earshot Jazz Festival ends this weekend. A highlight is a concert with vocalist Dean Bowman that pays homage to an early Quincy Jones/Ray Charles recording project, "Genius + Soul = Jazz."
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Miami Producer Re-Releases DVD Concert Featuring Fats Domino, Ray Charles, and Jerry Lee Lewis Date: 03 Nov 2009
Yahoo.com -
Major piece of rock & roll history was almost lost. Miami producer releases DVD concert featuring Fats Domino, Ray Charles, and Jerry Lee Lewis
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Funk Filharmonik's 24th Anniversary Funksgiving Date: 25 Oct 2009
antiMUSIC -
A top story from this week. What do Billy Joel, John Mayer, Bruce Springsteen, Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez, Gloria Estefan, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Jessica Simpson and The Blues Brothers have in common?
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Swank gives Oscar-worthy performance in 'Amelia' Date: 23 Oct 2009
Detroit News -
Freckle-faced, prairie-voiced and fiercely independent, Hilary Swank's depiction of aviator Amelia Earhart in Mira Nair's biographical film "Amelia" is of a high order. It ranks with recent real-life portrayals of Ray Charles by Jamie Foxx and Truman Capote by Philip Seymour Hoffman and could be similarly awards-bound.
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Hootie goes country at the Idaho Center Date: 23 Oct 2009
The Idaho Statesman -
Darius Rucker, frontman for pop-rock band Hootie and the Blowfish, has forged a surprising new career as a country singer. It's sort of a big deal: Rucker is the first black man to have a No. 1 country song in a quarter century - and only the third to have one at all. (Ray Charles and Charley Pride were the other two.) If you listen to country radio, you've probably heard one of Rucker's three ...
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Music Review: Ray Charles - The Spirit Of Christmas Date: 23 Oct 2009
Blogcritics.org -
It's so good even Clark Griswold would be proud.
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Funk Filharmonik's 24th Anniversary Funksgiving Date: 23 Oct 2009
antiMUSIC -
What do Billy Joel, John Mayer, Bruce Springsteen, Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez, Gloria Estefan, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Jessica Simpson and The Blues Brothers have in common?
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