Brother Ray
Subtitle: Ray Charles' own story
By: Ray Charles and David Ritz.
Contributors: Ritz, David, joint author.
Publisher: Dial Press
Published: 1978
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Charles, Ray, 1930-; Singers -- United States -- Biography
Description: Ray Charles has led one of the most extraordinary lives of any popular musician. Overcoming poverty, blindness, the loss of his parents, and the prevailing racism of the time, by the age of thirty-two Ray Charles was acclaimed worldwide as a genius. By combining the influences of gospel, jazz, blues, and even country music, he invented, almost single-handed, what became know as soul.