Ray Charles, unlike most heroin addicts, most keenly experienced the fear of death and the hand of God not during a drug overdose but during a sexual escapade. He was in flagrante with a woman who had ...
Blind by age 7 and an orphan at 15, the gifted pianist and saxophonist spent his life shattering any notion of musical categories and defying easy definition. One of the first artists to record the ...