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Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Class of 1986 - Ray Charles Honors

Inductee Honors

Ray Charles

"The Genius"

"Brother Ray"

Pioneered soul music by combining blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, and gospel

"Georgia On My Mind" - one of three No. 1 hits on Billboard Hot 100

10 recordings inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame 

Modern Sounds In Country and Western Music (1962) - No. 1 album on Billboard 200

18 Grammy Awards (5 posthumously)

Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1987)

No. 10 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time

No. 2 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers of All Time

Kennedy Center Honors (1986)

National Medal of Arts (1993)

Polar Music Prize (1998)

George and Ira Gershwin Award - Lifetime Musical Achievement (1991)

American Academy of Achievement w/ Golden Plate Award and Gold Medal (1975)

Georgia Music Hall of Fame (1979)

Rhythm & Blues Foundation (1991)

Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame (2015)

Country Music Hall of Fame (2022)

Hollywood Walk of Fame (1981)

Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame (2022)

Roughly 60 albums and over 200 compilation albums (according to AllMusic)

(Wikipedia)

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