Ray Charles’ music transcends time and genre, with songs that continue to captivate audiences across generations. Whether it’s the soulful yearning of "Georgia On My Mind," the electrifying ...

Ray Charles enjoyed tremendous commercial success in country music in the mid-'80s with songs from his 'Friendship' album, but his most successful years were in the 1960s.

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 ...

One of the artist’s most famous hit songs was the salacious “I Got a Woman,” which he released in 1954 as a single (with the B-side being his gut-wrenching tune, “Come Back Baby”). And ...

Charles died a short time later of acute liver disease. Their song, “Sinner’s Prayer,” a plea to God to forgive their trespasses, captures what neither could have known.

A second collection of country songs, including “You Are My Sunshine,” “Oh, Lonesome Me” and “Your Cheating Heart,” followed just months after the first, with Charles having considered ...

When talking about his influences, John Lennon once connected 2 Beatles classics to Ray Charles' 1959 hit 'What'd I Say.' ...

Brown created an expressive style of music that blended rough Texas blues with the soft glamour of Hollywood. Charles shaped American music since the 1950s with hits like "Georgia on My Mind." ...