RAY CHARLES

Ray Charles's Relationship to Cultural & Social Context

"Ray Charles is one of the most gifted and influential musicians of our century. By combining gospel, jazz, blues, and country, he helped invent what would become known as soul." Discuss Ritz, D (2003) Brother Ray: Ray Charles Own Story

Introduction

Ray Charles Robinson, nick named "The Genius" (Engineering) (23 September 1930 - 10 June 2004 ), is an American singer composer director and pianist whose career was full of different musical styles: the jazz , the gospel The blues , the country, on rhythm and blues and style that he created: the soul , the source of many current music styles. Ray Charles apart from all his talents with regard to his expertise could sing the song in the certain manner, which would portray the thoughts from the bottom of his heart, letting the listener also feel the pain & joy that he felt. He was also quoted in the Jazz Masters of the fifties of Joe Goldberg. Nonetheless, his vastly considered lyrics long tend to unclear his other substantial activities as a blue's pianist, band head, musician, and coordinator. "Jazz composers converse of a feature known as 'the cry,' a value that repeats the blues no matter what is played. The cry of blues infuses each of the Charles performance, engraved by Goldberg. (RAY, C. 1998)

Discussion

Youth Ray Charles Robinson was born on 23 September 1930 , in the midst of the Great Depression. His family was really very poor, they came to Albany, Georgia . He was raised by his mother Aretha Williams to Greenville in Florida. He did a little to the piano with Wylie Pitman (stride piano ), a man who played in the bar of his village. His childhood was marked by physical and psychological trauma: At age of four, he was diagnosed with glaucoma (unofficial diagnosis). A year later, he watched helplessly as the drowning of his little brother who was only three years (This episode marked him deeply). Through flashback back to the early stages of the life of this singer who was born in 1930 in a farming community very poor to the extent said of him is the same for later (even in comparison with blacks others, we were at the bottom of the social ladder, and we look to everyone else at the top , was not beneath us except the ground) and his father died when he was seven, leaving him and his younger brother with his mother that came reap cotton in the fields of rich Georgia whites, while the baby is the biggest creep into the church poor to hear the piano from NEGRO old, and after a while began the old side after Discovering the flexibility of small fingers. Amid this gloomy atmosphere he saw Ray, he was five years old at the time, his younger brother drown before his eyes is, in the seven years of age lost his sight.

However, despite the sinking of his brother left at ...