“Seven Spanish Angels” is one of the most iconic country duets ever recorded, a truly haunting, Gospel-tinged ballad performed by Willie Nelson and Ray Charles in 1984. The song was written by Troy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ray Charles, the driving force behind the melding of soul and gospel music, died Thursday in Los Angeles of liver disease. He was 73. "Ray Charles is the American voice," Texas singer and songwriter ...

Ray Charles spent his lifetime blurring idiomatic boundaries. He was rightly called a genius, and though credited with being one of soul’s breakthrough artists, Charles explored the entire realm of ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Ray Charles and The Judds joined the Country Music Hall of Fame on Sunday in a ceremony filled with tears, music and laughter, just a day after Naomi Judd died unexpectedly. The ...

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