"I Can't Stop Loving You" hit the top of the Billboard music charts on June 2, 1962. The song remained on the charts for an ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Ray Charles doesn’t need to score another hit or appear on any ...
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, ...
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 ...
The producers of the film “Ray” are re-teaming to bring a Ray Charles stage project to Broadway, according to the “Hollywood Reporter.” Producers Stuart Benjamin and Howard and Karen Baldwin have ...