Charles died at his Beverly Hills home surrounded by family and friends, said spokesman Jerry Digney. Charles last public appearance was alongside Clint Eastwood on April 30, when the city of Los ...

Ray Charles enjoyed tremendous commercial success in country music in the mid-'80s with songs from his Friendship album, but his most long-lasting influence on the genre came 20 years earlier. The ...

In celebration of what would have been Ray Charles’ 90th birthday, the label he founded in 1962, Tangerine Records will release True Genius. This newly remastered, limited edition set includes 90 of ...

Ray Charles, unlike most heroin addicts, most keenly experienced the fear of death and the hand of God not during a drug overdose but during a sexual escapade. He was in flagrante with a woman who had ...

On what would have been his 95th birthday, Greenville is remembering not just “The Genius” of Ray Charles, but the little boy from a humble home who changed the sound of American music forever.

Blind by age 7 and an orphan at 15, the gifted pianist and saxophonist spent his life shattering any notion of musical categories and defying easy definition. One of the first artists to record the ...