Tony Award nominee Brandon Victor Dixon, a standout in the recent off-Broadway musical The Scottsboro Boys, will star as music legend Ray Charles in the previously announced Broadway musical 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

There is exactly one great moment in Ray, director Taylor Hackford’s openhearted but literal-minded biopic of Ray Charles. It occurs midway through the film. By then, we’ve seen how thoroughly Jamie ...

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 ...