Musician (23-Sep-1930 — 10-Jun-2004)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Ray Charles; David Ritz. Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story. Da Capo Press. 2003. 368pp.

Mike Evans. Ray Charles: The "Right Time" and the Birth of Cool. Omnibus Press. 2005. 336pp.

Michael Lydon. Ray Charles: Man and Music. Routledge. 2004. 472pp.

Ray Charles, Jr., with Mary Jane Ross. You Don’t Know Me: Reflections of My Father, Ray Charles. New York: Harmony Books. 2010. 276pp.

PARALLELS

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Wikipedia [link]

5. Encyclopedia of American Biography (p.199)

6. Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians (p.128)

7. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.134)

8. Celebrity Register 3rd Issue (p.100)

9. Celebrity Register 4th Issue (p.93)

10. International Who's Who in Music: Popular Music (p.104)

11. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.128)

12. Encylopedia of Pop, Rock, and Soul (pp.111-12)

13. DK Encyclopedia of Rock Stars (pp.173-76)

14. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.102)

15. St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (vol.1, p.477)

16. The Encyclopedia of Country Music (p.91)

17. Legends in Their Own Time (p.47)

18. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.321)

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