ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - The city of Albany is filled with rich culture and history. A piece of that history is located at the Ray Charles Plaza in Albany. Ray Charles is an Albany native and his legacy ...

Rathel “Ray” Charles Robinson was born on November 5, 1962 to the late Charles and Jean Robinson in Philadelphia, PA. He departed this life on September 15, 2023 in Arizona. Ray retired from the ...

Perhaps no other performer in the history of recorded music offered as much truth about soul as Ray Charles, who died Thursday at the age of 73. Born Ray Charles Robinson in Albany, Ga., in 1930, he ...

Ray Charles Robinson was born September 23, 1930, in Albany, Georgia. His father, Bailey Robinson, was a mechanic and a handyman, and his mother, Aretha, stacked boards in a sawmill. His family moved ...

LOS ANGELES -- -- LOS ANGELES -- Shortly before Christmas 2002, Ray Charles called a meeting of his 12 children at a hotel near Los Angeles International Airport. Ten kids, ranging in age from 16 to ...

BEVERLY HILLS - Ray Charles, a transcendent talent who erased musical boundaries between the sacred and the secular with hits such as "What'd I Say," "Georgia on My Mind" and "I Can't Stop Loving You, ...

*My, how time flies. It seems like yesterday that the late great musical genius Ray Charles passed away 21 years ago in 2004. WCTV aired a segment of Greenville, Florida residents celebrating what ...