12/29/2023 0 Comments Ray charles movie![]() The owner of the club demands Ray to fill the twenty-minute slot he has left, and Ray performs "What'd I Say" on the spot. A few years later, Ray's band finishes early while doing a set. When the two begin an affair, a jealous Mary Anne leaves him to start a solo career. As Ray's popularity grows, Ray hires a girl trio to become "The Raylettes" (for $30/ week / singer), and immediately falls for Margie (Regina King), the lead singer. Ray and Mary Anne begin an affair (Mary asks for a solo). Ray refuses, and walks out on a pregnant Della. On a trip home, Della finds Ray's drug kit in his shaving bag, demanding him to stop taking drugs. Milt Shaw (David Krumholtz) is the record producer, that distributes them all over USA. Ray continues to gain fame with his songs "I Got a Woman" and "Hallelujah I Love Her So", and meets up with Mary Anne Fisher (Aunjanue Ellis), a singer. ![]() Fathead Newman (Bokeem Woodbine) is the base player. ![]() ![]() Ray starts touring, Jeff Brown (Clifton Powell) is his tour manager. Della is unhappy about Ray mixing gospel with his music, but acknowledges his talent. He falls in love with her, and the two get married. Ray later meets Della Bea (Kerry Washington), a preacher's daughter. Jerry Wexler (Richard Schiff) is Ahmet's partner. Ray performs Ertegun's song, "Mess Around", and becomes his first hit. that's how he is able to walk without a cane or a dog) (Jeff, who is the driver, introduces Ray to hard drugs), he is discovered by Ahmet Ertegun (Curtis Armstrong) of Atlantic Records (he is promised 5 cents a record deal). Ray plays with Lowell Fulson (Chris Thomas King).Īs Ray continues to travel and gain fame with his music (he reveals that he wears hard sole shoes, so he can discern different sounds. Jack suggests that Ray change his name to Ray Charles, to distinguish from Sugar Ray Robinson. Ray meets Jack Lauderdale (Robert Wisdom) of Swing Time Records, who gives him a $500 advance on his record, and 3 times pay of what Marlene was paying. After discovering that he is being lied to and stolen from (she was keeping all of Ray's paychecks from the club and keeping him on a small allowance), Ray leaves the band with Quincy. Oberon (Warwick Davis), who works for Marlene, tells Ray that Gossie and Marlene take 35% commission from Ray, plus Gossie takes double pay as leader of Ray's band. The club's owner Marlene Andre (Denise Dowse) soon begins to exploit Ray, demanding sexual favors and controlling his money and career. In 1948, Ray travels to Seattle, Washington where he uses his piano skills to get a job playing for a nightclub band (with Quincy Jones (Larenz Tate) & Gossie McKee (Terrence Howard)). In 1946, Ray joins a white country band who make him wear sunglasses to hide his damaged eyes from audiences (Ray tells white folk that he was in Normandy landings and took a direct hit and that's how he lost his eyes). Aretha teaches him to be independent despite his condition, and eventually, she sends Ray to a school for the deaf and blind. By age seven, he has become completely blind. Ray feels distraught over his brother's death, and begins to develop vision problems soon afterward. As Ray plays with his younger brother George one day, George slips into their mother's full washbasin and drowns to death. Ray Robinson (Jamie Foxx) is raised by his independent single mother, Aretha Robinson (Sharon Warren) in poverty, but he manages to find solace in music, eventually learning how to play the piano.
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