Ray Charles

Person · Open Library

Works

14

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1930-09-23

Active to

2004-06-10

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Listeners

2,866,202

Total plays

45,107,320

Ray Charles (Ray Charles Robinson, Albany, Georgia, September 23, 1930 - Beverly Hills, California, June 10, 2004), was an American singer-songwriter, musician, arranger, and band leader. As a rock and roll, rhythm & blues, soul, blues, jazz, country and pop musician he helped to shape the sound of rhythm & blues. He brought a soulful sound to everything from country music ("I Can't Stop Loving You") to rock and roll ("Mess Around"), to pop standards to a now-iconic rendition of "America the

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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2. The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research

   · 1989 · cited 29,222x

3. Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

   · 2015 · cited 23,789x

4. Array programming with NumPy

   · 2020 · cited 23,484x

5. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,903x

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Quotes

• “You gotta know how to get to people's heart”
• “I got a woman way over town, That's good to me, Oh yeah!”
• “Hey mama, don't you treat me wrong,Come and love your daddy all night long.All right now, hey hey, all right.See the girl with the diamond ring;She knows how to shake that thing.All right now now now, hey hey, hey hey.Tell your mama, tell your pa,I'm gonna send you back to Arkansas.Oh yes, ma'm, you don't do right, don't do right.”
• “Yeah yeah, what'd I say, all right Well, tell me what'd I say, yeah Tell me what'd I say right now Tell me what'd I say”
• “Soul is when you take a song and make it a part of you — a part that's so true, so real, people think it must have happened to you. … It's like electricity — we don't really know what it is, do we? But it's a force that can light a room. Soul is like electricity, like a spirit, a drive, a power.”
• “Music has been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.”

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