Ray

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The epic life story of Ray Charles, a true genius of American music, took almost fifteen years to bring to the screen. And this is the one and only book to teli the story of that amazing journey. For more than a decade director/producer Taylor Hackford and producer Stuart Benjámin worked with Ray Charles to develop a screenplay and to find financing for this biography that they knew would make a brilliant film. By any measure, the story of Ray Charles is the quintessential American dream. Born into abject poverty in the segregated South in the 1930s, Ray Charles was raised by a single mother, witnessed the tragic drowning of his younger brother, and by the age of seven, was totally blind. Yet despite these adversities, he rose to the pinnacle of his profession, revolutionized American music, and became the first recording artist to own his master recordings, a feat that not even Frank Sinatra was able to negotiate. Ray Charles owned and operated a multimillion-dollar recording... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The epic life story of Ray Charles, a true genius of American music, took almost fifteen years to bring to the screen. And this is the one and only book to teli the story of that amazing journey. For more than a decade director/producer Taylor Hackford and producer Stuart Benjámin worked with Ray Charles to develop a screenplay and to find financing for this biography that they knew would make a brilliant film. By any measure, the story of Ray Charles is the quintessential American dream. Born into abject poverty in the segregated South in the 1930s, Ray Charles was raised by a single mother, witnessed the tragic drowning of his younger brother, and by the age of seven, was totally blind. Yet despite these adversities, he rose to the pinnacle of his profession, revolutionized American music, and became the first recording artist to own his master recordings, a feat that not even Frank Sinatra was able to negotiate. Ray Charles owned and operated a multimillion-dollar recording business and traveled millions of miles during his lifetime to perform for kings and queens around the world. When he died in the summer of 2004, he was among the most respected and revered musicians of his time. Bringing this life story to the screen presented an enormous challenge to the fllmmakers, all of whom rose to the occasion with enormous passión and dedication, and this book includes essays from many involved in the making of this film. Director Taylor Hackford writes a fascinating foreword detailing how he helmed this massive project and describes the six landmark moments in Ray's life that became the cornerstones of the film. Actor Jamie Foxx, whose performance seems to channel the very spirit of Ray Charles, telis how he created Vissza