What song made Ray Charles famous? What was Ray Charles famous for?

American singer, songwriter, pianist, and composer, Ray Charles, preferred among friends as “Brother Ray” and “the Genius”, served as a ray of hope to our generation for not allowing the restraint of sight loss to bury his talent.

Charles’s career was one of success and his fame decades through the annals of history remains deserving to date.

What song made Ray Charles famous?

In 1962, Charles’s biggest hit, “I Can’t Stop Loving You”, topped the chart for five weeks running at No. 1.

Here is Charles performing his hit track at Montreux in 1997 with The Raelettes.

What was Ray Charles famous for?

Charles became one of the first black musicians to have total artistic control granted by a mainstream record company in a period during the morning of racial prejudice in the United States.

The soul music genre during the 1950s was pioneered by Charles, a feat he achieved through the amalgamation of blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, and gospel grooves into the music he recorded for Atlantic.

His crossover success on ABC Records in the 1960s saw his integration of country music, rhythm and blues, and pop music, especially on two of his Modern Sounds albums.