Seeking the essence of Ray Charles&#39; life
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How do you transpose the life of an American cultural icon who transformed American popular music into a compelling, streamlined biopic?
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On June 10, 2004, America lost one of its most influential and beloved musicians of all time: Ray Charles Robinson. A respectable tribute, âRayâ is a biopic profiling the life of the late Ray Charles, played here by Jamie Foxx.
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To play sightless Ray Charles in ``Ray,&#39;&#39; Jamie Foxx wasn&#39;t expected to be blind during filming, but he wouldn&#39;t have it any other way.
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&#39;&#39;Ray&#39;&#39; may play like a crowd-pleaser, but given its long, difficult journey to the screen, you&#39;d think it was an inaccessible art film.
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Between losing his brother at age 5, his eyesight at 7 and both parents by 15, as well as having a two-decade heroin habit and affairs with countless women, Ray Charles had enough drama in his life to fill a movie without a note of music being played.
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Jamie Foxx has ambition, talent and acres of self-esteem. All that and the movie Ray may snag him an Oscar nod
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The first time you hear it, it almost sounds like heresy: Jamie Foxx, who first found fame as Ugly Wanda on the ribald TV comedy &quot;In Living Color,&quot; is playing Ray Charles, one of the most revered figures in American pop culture.
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The excitement starts at once in âRay.â Starts with the strains of âWhatâdI Say.â Starts with the image of fingers dancing over piano keys reflected in the lenses of Ray Charlesâ signature shades.
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Ray is the simultaneously breathtaking and cornball story of the late Ray Charles, who went blind as a young boy and still managed to become a musician of mythic proportions before his death, at the age of 73, in June.
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Late singer Ray Charles' last album Genius Loves Company achieves multi-platinum status across the globe.
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Apple Computer&#39;s lovely little music player dominates the market, and its design and simplicity make it hard to beat. But let&#39;s face it - the iPod is the luxury car of hard-drive music players.
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It&#39;s taken country star Travis Tritt  more than a dozen albums to arrive at a point where he&#39;s  achieved &quot;total, utter freedom&quot; to craft the &quot;album I&#39;ve always  wanted to make.&quot;
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By VICTOR LEWIS-SMITH  RIDING along in my automobile the other day, with no particular place to go, I found myself thinking about Chuck Berry.
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LOS ANGELES  - Producer Gregg Field   says that creating the new Ray Charles album "Ray Sings, Basie   Swings," due October 3 from Concord Records and Starbucks Hear   Music, was "like painting the Sistine Chapel with a Q-tip."
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Here&#39;s how good Jamie Foxx is in &quot;Ray&quot;: For the duration of the film&#39;s 2 hours, it never once crosses your mind that you&#39;re watching an actor play Ray Charles.
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The soul-stirring biopic Ray, probing the life of legendary singer and musician Ray Charles, made sweet music at the box-office, even as it couldn&#39;t dislodge last week&#39;s champ The Grudge from the top position.
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He certainly did not feel it at the time, but director Taylor Hackford is enormously lucky it took 15 years to bring his film biography of Ray Charles to the screen.