Ray Charles, master of music who combined blues, gospel, country, dies at 73
Thursday, June 10, 2004

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Ray Charles, the Grammy-winning crooner who blended gospel and blues in such crowd-pleasers as ``What'd I Say'' and heartfelt ballads like ``Georgia on My Mind,'' died Thursday, a spokesman said. He was 73.

Charles died at his Beverly Hills home surrounded by family and friends, said spokesman Jerry Digney.

Charles last public appearance was alongside Clint Eastwood on April 30, when the city of Los Angeles designated the singer's studios, built 40 years ago in central Los Angeles, as a historic landmark.

Blind by age 7 and an orphan at 15, Charles spent his life shattering any notion of musical boundaries and defying easy definition. A gifted pianist and saxophonist, he dabbled in country, jazz, big band and blues, and put his stamp on it all with a deep, warm voice roughened by heartbreak from a hardscrabble childhood in the segregated South.

``His sound was stunning - it was the blues, it was R&B, it was gospel, it was swing - it was all the stuff I was listening to before that but rolled into one amazing, soulful thing,'' singer Van Morrison told Rolling Stone magazine in April.

Charles won nine of his 12 Grammy Awards between 1960 and 1966, including the best R&B recording three consecutive years (``Hit the Road Jack,'' ``I Can't Stop Loving You'' and ``Busted'').

His versions of other songs are also well known, including ``Makin' Whoopee'' and a stirring ``America the Beautiful.'' Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell wrote ``Georgia on My Mind'' in 1931 but it didn't become Georgia's official state song until 1979, long after Charles turned it into an American standard.

C'est vraiment triste.

Je suis d?go?t?...

farewell

arg ray charles est mort ben flute --> je suis en train de lire l'autobiographie de Quincy Jones "Quincy by Quincy Jones" en ce moment et il raconte k'avec ray charles kan ils avaient 15 ans ils ont fait les 400 coups ensemble k'ils ont fait trop de prod k'ils ont commenc? ensemble et tout. et la 60 ans plus tard preske il nous quitte

sad day...

Requiescat in pace !

putain..barry white puis maintenant ray...je ladorai ce mec..

bye bye


pour le coup c'est un tr?s tr?s grand qui s'en va
Sans lui la musique ne serait pas ce qu'elle est aujord'hui

Respect ? son ?me!!

R I P

merde j'avais regard? ce forum j'ai post? le message dans messages perso..

REP

R.I.P very sad

RIP

je crois qu'il ne s'est jamais remis de son passage a la Star Ac'........

RIP

Resposez en Paix Monsieur...

That's how much I Love You Ray.

RIP, from Lille with luv

Petites pens?es pour les autres dont
Arthur Prysock 1997
Barbara Acklin 1998
Bebu Silvetti 2003
Bobby DJ Guttadaro 1989
Curtis Mayfield 1999
Dan Hartman 1994
Dennis Parker 1985
Donny Hathaway 1979
Eddie Kendricks 1992
Edwin Starr 2003
Grover Washington Jr 1999
Gwen Guthrie 1999
Harold Melvin 1997
Jim Burgess 1988
John Whitehead 2004
Karen Young 1991
Keith Barrow 1983
Marvin Gaye 1984
Minnie Ripperton 1979
Sharon Redd 1992
Sylvester 1988
Tee Scott 1995
Walter Gibbons 1994

C est triste quand meme snifff

sale touarboux c? normal que t'ais oubli? larry levan (1954-1992) ?

oui

Emission sp?ciale Dimanche soir ? 23h30 sur France2 ? l'occasion de la mort de Ray Charles
de quoi s'agit il ???? Docu, Concert... ???? j'sais pas.