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雷·查尔斯在1930年9月23日出生在格鲁吉亚的奥尔巴尼。从17岁开始，他祝福我们所有人，都是用音乐作为礼物。作为其中一个至今为止很有影响力的音乐家，他把来自不同流派，好像永远不会匹配的的音乐融合在一起。他把R&B，灵魂乐，摇滚乐，布鲁斯，爵士乐，乡村和西部音乐，流行乐和福音音乐在某种程度上交叉在一起，没有其他的艺术家自称是已经完成的。这篇散文将尝试着分享雷兄弟，亦称天才的生活，和发现他许多的歌。

虽然雷出生在格鲁尼亚，大部分的青年时期都生活在佛罗里达，但是他知道所有的是大城市的音乐界的
名人。因此，在他17岁的时候，他就已经在小地方音乐会演奏，攒了一些钱，为了搬到华盛顿的西雅图。在那里，他开始了马克西姆的三重奏，和下来敲击唱片公司签约了。在1949年的春天，他们录制了流行一时的歌曲'Confessin' Blues'。在接下来的16年期间，雷·查尔斯既发现了他自己，又在制作好的音乐，但是同时又和成瘾的海洛因进行斗争。

在接下来的3年里，他制作出了另外6种单曲，但是它们都仍然很在查尔斯布朗和纳·京·高尔的柔和圆润的形式里。这个时候，大西洋唱片公司看到他很好的潜质，花了2500美元从欢乐时光唱片公司买了他的契约。大西洋唱片公司意图来帮助雷·查尔斯找到一些特殊的，他们曾经做过的事。在接下来的7年里，在大西洋唱片公司，他录制了许多流行单曲，像《浪费时间》，《我该说些什么》，和开创新的歌曲《我得到了一个女人》。

Ray Charles was born as Ray Charles Robinson on September 23, 1930 in Albany, Georgia and from the age of 17 he blessed us all with his gift of music for well over half a century. As one of the most influential musician to date, he blended together music from so many genres that never seemed to go together. He crossed genres of R&B, soul, rock and roll, blues, jazz, country and western, pop and gospel in a way that no other artist can claim to have achieved. This essay will attempt to take a stroll through the life of Brother Ray, aka The Genius and discover a number of his songs.

Although Ray was born in Georgia and lived most of his youth in Florida, he knew that all the big names in music were in big cities, and so at the young age of 17 he already saved up some money from playing in small local gigs to move to Seattle, Washington. It was there that he started the Maxim trio and signed up with Down Beat Records. They recorded the hit song 'Confessin' Blues' in the spring of 1949. During the next 16 years, Ray Charles would both find himself both making great music while at the same time struggling with a heroin addiction.

Over the next 3 years he produces another six singles, but they were all still very much in the softer mellow form of Charles Brown and Nat King Cole. It was at this point when Atlantic Records sees great potential in him and buys his contract from Swing Time Records for $2,500. It's Atlantic Records' intention to help Ray Charles find that something special and did they ever! It was at Atlantic where over the next seven years he recorded numerous hits such as 'Mess Around', 'What'd I say' and the groundbreaking song 'I Got a Woman'.

In 1954, Ray Charles records 'I Got a Woman' which blended gospel music with R&B. This caused a massive display of anger from some people claiming that he was singing devil music and that he was defiling God's music. Even that would not stop Ray and his music, 'I Got a Woman' hit #2 on the charts. This song is commonly thought of as the very first song of the Soul genre with the rhythms and blues and the emotion of gospel blended perfectly together.

Not slowing down at all, Ray Charles makes yet another chart topping song with Atlantic Records called 'Drown in My Own Tears'. However, Ray Charles would not be limited to just R&B and started to add different elements to his songs. In 1957 he recorded 'Swanee River Rock' which establish him as a crossover artist as it was in the Top 40 in both the R&B and Pop charts. Less than two years later he really starts to master his technique and hits the nail on the head with 'What'd I say'. Th