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Name Image Birth Death Known for Association Reference Patricia Barber: Nov 8, 1955: Jazz singer, songwriter, and pianist Born in Chicago William Beckett: Feb 11, 1985: Musician, associated with The Academy Is... Lived in Chicago Joe Becker (musician) Jun 23, 1976: Guitarist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Born in Chicago Taylor Bennett ...
Ray Charles (born Charles Raymond Offenberg; September 13, 1918 – April 6, 2015) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, vocal arranger and conductor who was best known as organizer and leader of the Ray Charles Singers, who accompanied Perry Como on his records and television shows for 35 years [1] [2] and were also known for a series of 30 choral record albums produced in the 1950s ...
On September 22, 2004, Ray Charles was honored with a Google Doodle on what would have been his 74th birthday. [75] It was one of the first Doodles for one's birthday. In 2010, a $20 million, 76,000 sq ft (7,100 m 2) facility named the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center and Music Academic Building, opened at Morehouse. [76]
Audioslave – According to lead guitarist Tom Morello, the name supposedly came to singer Chris Cornell in a vision. [40] Auto-Icon – Derived from the term Auto-Iconization first attributed to Jeremy Bentham, Utility and Democracy: The Political Thought of Jeremy Bentham. Auto-Icon Started as a one-man project in Los Angeles in 1999 with the ...
Soundstage is an American live concert television series produced by WTTW Chicago and HD Ready. The original series aired for 13 seasons between 1974 and 1985; a new series of seasons began in 2003, with the latest (Season 11) starting in April 2018, each presented in high-definition with surround sound. Some performances have been made ...
John Alvin Ray (January 10, 1927 – February 24, 1990) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Highly popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor to what became rock and roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced music, and his animated stage personality. [1]
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In 2003, director Mark Moormann premiered an award-winning documentary about his life entitled Tom Dowd and the Language of Music. In the 2004 biopic about musician Ray Charles, Ray, Tom Dowd was portrayed by actor Rick Gomez. Dowd was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.