The Latest Breaking News from Ray Charles

As vocal coach tells of Marisa Abela’s gruelling routine to prepare for Amy Winehouse role, here are some others who put in the hours

The composer and arranger has worked with everyone from Ray Charles to Rihanna. Now he’s stepping into the spotlight with a mammoth three and a half hour debut LP … and that’s just volume one

Streisand does nothing to quell her diva reputation by writing an almost 1,000-page memoir of her life. Despite all the name-dropping – from giving back massages to De Niro to her chats about gardening with King Charles – the book’s sheer length means only diehard fans should rush to read…

In the mid-1980s he invited Angela Davis, Winnie Mandela, Jesse Jackson and Ray Charles to talk to communities across the country. Thus began an enormous, ongoing, consciousness-changing event

Matoaka Baptist Church pastor said he was impersonating Ray Charles in one incident and dressed as a Native woman during "Cowboys and Indians Night" at a church camp.

The Southern Baptist Convention has ousted an Oklahoma church whose pastor defended his blackface performance at one church event and his impersonation of a Native American woman at another

Yanovsky brought the weird, wonderful and the none-too-serious to Good Time Music, and was a genius player, but did he get the credit he deserved?

Bonnie Raitt has played with everyone, from Ray Charles to Bruce Springsteen to Elton John and Aretha Franklin - and she's still winning awards

Flashbulbs lit up Berkeley Square last night as stars gathered to celebrate a landmark birthday of one of the capital’s most famous nightclubs. David Ellis reports on the occasion and raises a glass to its sensational ground-breaking history

"Appreciate all the love"

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story may have flopped at the box office, but it featured an hilarious scene with Jack Black, Paul Rudd and others portraying The Beatles