Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Ray Charles doesn’t need to score another hit or appear on any ...

Red, white, and blue confetti streamed over Manhattan's Times Square during a Ray Charles rendition of ‘America The Beautiful ...

As the tributes of the past two weeks have reminded us, Ray Charles could make any song, in any genre, his own — even the white-bread 19th-Century hymn ‘‘America the Beautiful,'' one of Charles's most ...

Ray Charles performs America the Beautiful at the 1984 Republican National Convention. In 1984, Ray Charles delivered a stirring rendition of America the Beautiful at the Republican National ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Singer-songwriter Ray Charles may have had Georgia on his mind, but North Florida is where his path to fame and fortune began. Charles was born in Albany, Georgia, but grew up in ...

2642 Eugene St., where Ray Charles and his wife and son lived in the 1950s, doesn't look as good as it did only eight years ago, when its then-new owner said he considered turning the house into a ...

The poem that inspired the song, America the Beautiful, is 130 years old today, and despite the threats to democracy, it resonates more than ever. At this moment of deep political division, bold ideas ...