And if you ever want to say where I got my start, you have to say that" (MacDonald). Seattle is the town where I made my first record. The people were friendly, the people took to me right away. "I met a lot of very good friends here," he told one interviewer. Charles often spoke of Seattle as a pivotal point in his long and hugely successful career as a singer/songwriter. He stayed only two years, but during that time he cut his first record and began to develop the genre-bending musical style that would make him an international star. Soul is like electricity, like a spirit, a drive, a power.Ray Charles was a poor, blind, newly orphaned teenager living in Tampa, Florida, in 1948 when he decided to move to Seattle, picking the city because it was as far away as he could get from where he was. … It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, do we? But it's a force that can light a room. Soul is when you take a song and make it a part of you - a part that's so true, so real, people think it must have happened to you.
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RAY CHARLES GENIUS AND FRIENDS HOW TO
You gotta know how to get to people's heart Ray Charles.
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If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind.
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And, man, I mean the real backwoods! That's at the start of the start of the thing, and that's at the heart of the thing.