Ray Charles, The Genius

Ray Charles, The Genius

Ray Charles was an incredibly talented singer and composer of jazz, blues, gospel, and country music. He appeared at the presidential inaugurations of Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton and had many great hit songs such as “What’d I Say” and “Hit the...
Ray Charles, The Genius

Giacomo Casanova, the Great Lover

You have all heard about Casanova, who is defined in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as “a man who is a promiscuous and unscrupulous lover.”   Near the end of his life in the 1790s, Casanova wrote a 12-volume, 3,800-page autobiography claiming that he slept...
Ray Charles, The Genius

Waylon Jennings’ Years of Pain

Twenty years ago this week we lost Waylon Jennings, one of the all-time great voices of country music.  Jennings was a singer and songwriter who rose from poverty to great wealth and fame, with 54 albums and 96 singles listed among the top sellers between 1966 and...
Ray Charles, The Genius

Robert Durst, Pathological Killer

Robert Durst was a fabulously wealthy heir to one of the most powerful real estate companies in New York City, and a convicted murderer and suspected-serial killer who avoided appropriate punishment for more than 40 years by changing his name, disguising his face,...