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Ray Charles
1llustrated with 16 pages of black and white photos, this is the first full-length biography of Ray Charles and the definitive portrait of the man called The Genius of Soul'. Colourful, commanding, ruthless, opinionated and dogmatic, Charles stands among the most influential pop musicians of the last half century and his musical innovations have touched everyone from Elvis to Prince, from Aretha Franklin to Billy Joel. A fascinating analytical look at both the man and his art.'
Ray Charles
Traces the personal life and musical career of the blind singer, musician, and composer Ray Charles.
Ray Charles
Traces the personal life and musical career of the blind singer, musician, and composer, Ray Charles.
Ray Charles
Ray Charles: Man and Music is a complete biography of this seminal singer/pianist who has been active on the American music scene since the mid-'50s. Originally published in 1995 by Penguin Books, and universally hailed as the definitive biography, this new edition will bring Charles's life up to date, covering the last 7 years of his life.There are only a few legendary singers who have developed mass audiences while pursuing their own artistic visions: Sinatra is one; Ella Fitzgerald another. Ray Charles undoubtedly belongs in this pantheon of major musical stars. Ray Charles: Man and Music begins with Charles's impoverished childhood in Greenville, Florida, where tragedy struck early when ...
Ray Charles: The Birth of Soul
Ray Charles - Die Geburt des Soul ist die unglaubliche Geschichte eines wahren Pioniers der Musikgeschichte. Mit seinem musikalischen Wagemut prägte er die Musik der letzten 50 Jahre entscheidend. Von seinen ersten Aufnahmen in den 50er Jahren an war sein einzigartiger Stil für Künstler eine unerschöpfliche, musikalische Quelle. Musikgrößen von Elvis Presley über die Beatles und Stevie Wonder bis hin zu Topkünstlern des 21. Jahrhunderts wie Norah Jones ließen sich von Charles inspirieren. Der Gründungsvater des Soul sprengte musikalische Grenzen und beeinflusste so Jazz, Country und Rock'n'Roll gleichermaßen. Mike Evans erzählt in seinem Buch die ganz persönliche Geschichte von Ray Charles. Er lässt keine Wendung auf Charles' Lebensweg und kein Werk aus. So erfährt man alles über den Ausnahmekünstler, ausgehend von seinen ersten aufwühlenden musikalischen Erfahrungen während seiner tragischen Kindheit bis hin zum Gipfel des internationalen Erfolgs. Exklusivinterviews und Zitate machen dieses Buch zu einer faszinierenden Dokumentation über die Karriere einer der wenigen Musiker, für welche man das Wort Genie getrost verwenden darf.
Ray Charles
Part of the Black American Series. This biography recounts the life of Ray Charles from his birth in 1930, right through his career as a musician which now spans over forty years. Illustrated with numerous b/w photographs, it is an excellent introduction to the life of this internationally respected and hugely influential performer and recording artist.
Ray Charles
As a young boy he fell in love with music, and as a man, the world fell in love with his music. Ray Charles and his soulful, passionate rhythms and melodies have been embraced around the world for decades. Now, in this beautiful new edition of an award-winning biography, readers can follow Charles from his boyhood, when he lost his sight and learned to read and write music in Braille, until the age of 40, when he had become a world-renowned jazz and blues musician packing auditoriums and stadiums. And in a new introduction and afterword, the author updates Charles's life to the present. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Brother Ray
Ray Charles (1930-2004) led one of the most extraordinary lives of any popular musician. In Brother Ray, he tells his story in an inimitable and unsparing voice, from the chronicle of his musical development to his heroin addiction to his tangled romantic life. Overcoming poverty, blindness, the loss of his parents, and the pervasive racism of the era, Ray Charles was acclaimed worldwide as a genius by the age of thirty-two. By combining the influences of gospel, jazz, blues, and country music, he invented, almost single-handedly, what became known as soul. And throughout a career spanning more than a half century, Ray Charles remained in complete control of his life and his music, allowing nobody to tell him what he could and couldn't do.As the Chicago Sun-Times put it, Brother Ray is "candid, explicit, sometimes embarrassing, often hilarious, always warm, touching and deeply human-just like his music."
Ray Charles
One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively, inspiring, fictionalized biographies -- easily read by children of eight and up -- today's youngster is swept right into history.
Ray Charles
Traces the life and career of the popular singer, describes his difficult childhood, and assesses his impact on popular music
