Genre: R & B
Album: The Genius Anthology - Deluxe Edition
Original Release : 5/27/2008
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Album: Genius
Original Release : 12/12/2006
Ray Sings, Basie Swings
2006
Telarc
Genius Loves Company
Liberty
Alone in the City [Remember]
1996
Tko Coll. Blues
Ray Charles was the musician most responsible for developing soul music. Singers like Sam Cooke and Jackie Wilson also did a great deal to pioneer the form, but Charles did even more to devise a new form of black pop by merging '50s R&B with gospel-powered vocals, adding plenty of flavor from contemporary jazz, blues, and (in the '60s) country. Then there was his singing; his style was among the most emotional and easily identifiable of any 20th-century performer, up there with the likes of Elvis Read More
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