First CD release of the acclaimed live concert recording In the half-century between his earliest recordings in the 1950s and his death in 2004, Ray Charles ascended to icon status by leaving his mark ...

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 ...

DALLAS -- On a threadbare street in South Dallas, a relic of a musical legend sits virtually unknown and unprotected. The gray and white bungalow at 2642 Eugene St., where Ray Charles lived, practiced ...