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“Ray”

Georgia On My Mind

Hit The Road Jack

I Can't Stop Loving You

Unchain My Heart

A Song For You

What'd I Say

Ellie My Love

Mess Around

I Got A Woman

The Right Time

Let It Be

Somewhere Over The ...

Route 66

Yesterday

Eleanor Rigby

Imagine

w/ Norah Jones

Here We Go Again

w/ Diana Krall

You Don'T Know Me

w/ Natalie Cole

Feever

w/ Elton John

Sorry Seems To Be ...

w/ Willie Nelson

A Song For You

w/ Stevie Wonder

Living For The City

w/ Mary Ann Fisher

Sweet Memories

w/ Jubilaton

Oh, Happy Day

Ray Charles Robinson Sr. was born on September 23, 1930 in Albany, Geogia, and died on June 10, 2004 in Beverly Hills, California. Known as Ray Charles, he was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and composer. He is regarded as one of the most iconic and influential singers ever, and he was often referred to as “The Genius”. Charles was blinded during childhood.

Charles pioneered the soul music category during the 1950s by combining blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, and gospel styles into the music, he recorded for Atlantic Records. He contributed to the integration of country music, rhythm and blues, and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, notably with his two Modern Sounds albums. While he was with ABC Recors, Charles became one of the first black musicians to be granted artistic control by a mainstream record company.

Charles's 1960 hit "Georgia On My Mind" was the first of his three career No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. His 1962 album Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music became his first album to top the Billboard 200. Charles had multiple singles reach the Top 40 on various Billboard charts.

Charles cited Nat King Cole as a primary influence, but his music was also influenced by Louis Jordan and Charles Brown. He had a lifelong friendship and occasional partnership with Quincy Jones. Frank Sinatra called Ray Charles "the only true genius in show business," although Charles downplayed this notion. Billy Joel said, "This may sound like sacrilege, but I think Ray Charles was more important than Elvis Presley".

For his musical contributions, Charles received the Kennedy Center Honors, the National Medal of Arts, and the Polar Music Prize. He was one of the inaugural inductees at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in 1986. He has won 18 Grammy Awards (5 posthumously), the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987, and 10 of his recordings have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Rolling Stone ranked Charles No. 10 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, and No. 2 on their list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. In 2022, he was inducted into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame.

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