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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1930-09-23 (94 years old)

Place of Birth

Albany, Georgia USA

Ray Charles

Biography:

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 by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums. While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company. Frank Sinatra called Charles “the only true genius in show business.”

Rolling Stone ranked Charles number 10 on their list of "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" in 2004, and number two on their November 2008 list of "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". In honoring Charles, Billy Joel noted: "This may sound like sacrilege, but I think Ray Charles was more important than Elvis Presley. I don't know if Ray was the architect of rock & roll, but he was certainly the first guy to do a lot of things . . . Who the hell ever put so many styles together and made it work?"

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Acting

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The Greatest Night in Pop as Self (archive footage)

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Piano Greats at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
Rat Pack as Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues as Self (archive footage)

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I Am Not Your Negro as Self (archive footage)

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Cachitos de hierro y cromo as Self (archive footage)

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Blue's Big Musical Movie as G-Clef (voice)

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Spy Hard as Busdriver

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Limit Up as Julius

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Cher as Self
Saturday Night Live as Self - Host & Musical Guest

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The Carol Burnett Show as Self - Guest

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The Hollywood Palace as Self - Singer
Shindig! as Self - Singer

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The Mike Douglas Show as Self - Co-Host

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Sound

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CATFISH as Music

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Cosmic Ray as Music