Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story (Audiobook)
David Ritz, Ray Charles, Andrew L. Barnes (Narrator), "Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story"
Unabridged edition 2005 | 13 hors and 23 mins | ISBN: 0786180951 | MP3 64 kbps | 368 MB
Unabridged edition 2005 | 13 hors and 23 mins | ISBN: 0786180951 | MP3 64 kbps | 368 MB
Ray Charles (1930-2004) led one of the most extraordinary lives of any popular musician. In Brother Ray, he reveals his story unsparingly, 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 or couldn’t do.