Full name: Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

Author: Ray Charles Year: 1978 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Music, Biographies, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780306814310 0306814315

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." Similar books: Take It Like a Man by Boy George Margrave of the Marshes by John Peel Strange Days by Patricia Kennealy-Morrison The Long Hard Road Out of Hell by Marilyn Manson Moonwalk by Michael Jackson White Line Fever by Lemmy Kilmister Man in Black by Johnny Cash Not Dead Yet by Phil Collins Sweet Life by Barry Manilow Clapton by Eric Clapton Reba by Reba McEntire I, Tina by Tina Turner Long Time Gone by David Crosby Set the Boy Free by Johnny Marr Tommyland by Tommy Lee This Is Gonna Hurt by Nikki Sixx Light and Shade by Brad Tolinski No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry Hopkins Mozipedia by Simon Goddard U2 at the End of the World by Bill Flanagan