(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 ...

When Ray Charles was singing ‘I Got a Woman’ back in 1958, there were plenty of god-fearing fans of jazz and gospel music who ...

We humans are inclined to attach meaning to everything. That is just how we are genetically created, as to attach meaning to something is to make sense of the world. Although, at times, especially ...

Ray Charles hated labels. He avoided calling the music he created any certain genre. He was pulling from gospel, jazz, rhythm & blues, pop, blues, country and western, soul, and boogie-woogie. Brother ...