Stuart Benjamin, a producer of the 2004 pic “Ray,” will bring Ray Charles bio-tuner “Unchain My Heart” to Broadway in the fall. Show, with a book by Pulitzer winner Suzan-Lori Parks (“Topdog/Underdog” ...

Brother Ray, the star’s biography, gave his fans and followers an inside perspective to his childhood and journey. Charles was born in Georgia in 1930, but shortly after his arrival, his parents moved ...

Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), better known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s ...

The producers who brought Ray Charles’ biography to movie screens three years ago are now doing the same for theater. “Ray Charles Live! -- A New Musical” will round out the Pasadena Playhouse’s 2007 ...

Editor's note: This story originally published in The Tennessean's print edition on March 5, 2006. The art featured in this digital replica did not necessarily run in the original print edition. One ...

Ray Charles arrived in Seattle a teenager with a name and a voice short of where he was headed. Lanky and handsome, the 16-year-old known as R.C. Robinson copied the style and singing of silky smooth ...

While Ray Charles started building a national following in the early 1950s, his reach became global with the ’59 hit “What’d I Say.” John Lennon recalled how many songs (including two by The Beatles) ...

Brandon Victor Dixon, fresh off his well-received perf in “The Scottsboro Boys,” will portray Ray Charles in “Unchain My Heart,” the Charles bio-tuner set to open on Broadway in the fall. Dixon (“The ...

More than 20 years after the icon's death, Exceleration Music's John Burk is reissuing four classic Charles albums under his original Tangerine label. By Steve Knopper While producing what became Ray ...

In a year when record labels and song publishers are receiving termination notices, Ray Charles' children have prevailed in the first step in winning back song rights. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal ...