How to pronounce “ray charles” in English

We opened for everybody-- Ray Charles, Carmen McRae, The Isley Brothers,

So a movie about Ray Charles will win Oscars.

so from Stevie Wonder to Ray Charles, to the kind of stuff Quincy did, to Elvis.

Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Nina Simone,

How was it compared to, say, what Ray Charles-- Nobody knew what anybody else made.

- I motivate my audiences from my experiences playing with people like Sting, Elton John, people like Buddy Guy, Ray Charles, Avril Lavigne, Michelle Branch.

And Duke Ellington was playing piano, Oscar Peterson was playing piano, Ray Charles and Dave Brubeck-- and I saw this on the schedule.

Well, you know, when I learned how to play piano when I was a kid, I saw Ray Charles.

And a friend of mine, years later when I was telling him this, said, boy, I could see Ray Charles in the TV commercial