Ray Charles ... with me," says Charles. "They are ready for me and that's important." Charles can't stop the music because music, he says, is his life. "Ever since I was 3 years old, music has ...

She also loved the young boy ... 10 different women over a course of almost 40 years… In addition to being an incredibly gifted musician, Ray Charles also knew how to put on the charm.

I DON’T THINK ABOUT THE difference between what was and what is,” Ray Charles says. He means it. He doesn’t spend a lot of time looking back. But it’s hard not to think of t… ...

Google "genius" and "Ray Charles" in tandem and you'll not ... Bailey Robinson, the young Charles was raised by his mother and his father's wife, Mary Jane Robinson (yes, he had a complicated ...

GROSS: That's Ray Charles, one of his recordings included on his new box set "The Complete Country And Western Recordings 1959 To 1986." Now, it's funny. You know, when I was young, some of your ...

Ray Charles was only 22 years old when he ... re-creates the original packaging of each album, The Atlantic Years chronicles a young artist gaining technical as well as aesthetic control over ...

Do you remember the first time you heard your recorded voice? Our young Ray Charles, let's call him R.C., still in his teen years, was trying to find his own distinctive style. When he performed ...

The Genius Of Ray Charles Tracks: Let The Good Times Roll; It Had To Be You; Alexander's Ragtime Band; Two Years Of Torture ... trumpet; Snooky Young: trumpet; Marcus Belgrave: trumpet; John Hunt: ...