(ThyBlackMan.com) Ray Charles, affectionately known as Brother Ray, is one of the most influential musicians of all time. His ability to seamlessly blend blues, jazz, gospel, country, and R&B into an ...

Long before playlists, streaming algorithms, and AI-generated tunes, Ray Charles was already tearing up genre maps and putting his own spin on the American songbook in ways few artists dared. Country, ...

The Monkees‘ songs were very different from Ray Charles’ songs. Despite this, The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz would perform one of Charles’ songs while dressed like James Brown. A songwriter said Dolenz’s ...

Ringo continues to tour with different iterations of his All Starr Band as a way to promote his new solo work. Yet he will always be linked to his work with The Beatles. And when it comes to the Fab ...

To understand Ellis Hall, it helps to know his language. Yes, there’s the musical one. In pauses between conversation, he might play the nearby piano as if to add something special to the silence. He ...

The famed R&B song, which was written by artist Percy Mayfield and recorded, of course, by the legendary American songwriter, Ray Charles, was a No. 1 hit in the United States upon its release in 1961 ...

Q: Do you remember the first time you heard a Ray Charles song? A: Nobody remembers the first time they heard Ray Charles because there has always been Ray Charles. He’s always been a part of the ...

*On June 10, 2004, I was at a golf course in Florida when I heard the news on the radio that the late great Ray Charles had passed away. I knew through his family that he’d been ill, and as the news ...