Darius Rucker been doing it for years and he still get criticized from what I've seen...Mr. Chuck Berry is the godfather of rock & roll and country
If Chuck Berry is the Godfather then Ray Charles is the father.
Let's support this Black female country singer
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If Chuck Berry is the Godfather then Ray Charles is the father.
Darius Rucker been doing it for years and he still get criticized from what I've seen...Mr. Chuck Berry is the godfather of rock & roll and country
shyt Chuck Berry didn't have nothing on Ray Charles when it came to Country music. Brother Ray took Country music to the top of the Pop charts. The POP CHARTS. He is the reason that Country music moved away from all of the twanging and banjos and stuff to sound more like Pop music that Black people were singing. Ray was a bad man.
Music
1962
Ray Charles takes country music to the top of the pop charts
Ray Charles takes country music to the top of the pop charts
Ray Charles was one of the founding fathers of soul music—a style he helped create and popularize with a string of early 1950s hits on Atlantic Records like “I Got A Woman” and “What’d I Say.” This fact is well known to almost anyone who has ever heard of the man they called “the Genius,” but what is less well known—to younger fans especially—is the pivotal role that Charles played in shaping the course of a seemingly very different genre of popular music. In the words of his good friend and sometime collaborator, Willie Nelson, speaking before Charles’ death in 2004, Ray Charles the R&B legend "did more for country music than any other living human being.” The landmark album that earned Ray Charles that praise was Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, which gave him his third #1 hit in “I Can’t Stop Loving You,” which topped the U.S. pop charts on this day in 1962
Executives at ABC Records—the label that wooed Ray Charles from Atlantic with one of the richest deals of the era—were adamantly opposed to the idea that Charles brought to them in 1962: to re-record some of the best country songs of the previous 20 years in new arrangements that suited his style. As Charles told Rolling Stone magazine a decade later, ABC executives said, “You can’t do no country-western things….You’re gonna lose all your fans!” But Charles recognized the quality of songs like “I Can’t Stop Loving You” by Don Gibson and “You Don’t Know Me,” by Eddy Arnold and Cindy Walker, and the fact that his version of both of those country songs landed in the Top 5 on both the pop and R&B charts was vindication of Charles’s long-held belief that "There’s only two kinds of music as far as I’m concerned: good and bad.”
This all-embracing attitude toward music was one that Ray Charles developed during a childhood immersed in the sounds of jazz, blues, gospel and country. To him, the boundaries between those styles of music were made to be crossed, and he made a career out of doing just that. Released over the initial objections of his record label and its distributors, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music went on to be the biggest-selling album of 1962, occupying the top spot on the Billboard album chart for 14 weeks. “I Can’t Stop Loving You,” held the #1 spot on the singles chart for five weeks beginning on this day in 1962, eventually becoming the biggest pop hit of Ray Charles’s monumental career.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-...es-country-music-to-the-top-of-the-pop-charts
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Kanye - Armenian/Arsb....hell u got bw wanting to be a Kardisain so they dont count
Big Sean - grande isnt white lmao, more italian...and bw love italian men so miss me with that
wiz - amber rose has a black mom, so shes white now
Tyler been broke up with the Rotheschild bytch who is Jewish anyways
TerrNce is biracial, yes??
Whose still checking eddie murhy?!
Bw aint the biggest supporters of Mjchael B Jordan, he attracts the nerds crowd
Lmao this list
tell an Italian he isn't white and see how he reacts
WRONG!
At the heart of Country music is Blue Grass music. Blue Grass music is played by Banjos and Fiddles. The banjo is from Africa; the slaves built them when they got to America. The Africans also built fiddles once they got to America; that they had used in their homelands. Country music as you know it was first performed by the slaves in the minstrel shows. The White audiences heard it and they liked it; so they added their folk songs from Europe.
http://www.frugalfun.com/blackcountry.html
http://www.bluegrasswest.com/ideas/why_black.htm
That is because Country music is the Blues. Phil Monroe the Country artist acknowledges being influenced by a local Black Blues artist.
So would you support taye diggs and wesely snipes?
I support them, Wesley Snipes is one of my favourite actors
Thats because you would look real hypocritical when ur with a wm
The_King_of_Everything
Yeah.
You guys love to bicker and complain.
All i see is two mullatos who found each otherI did my googles before i lend any support.
However he could have a cpl of drops of melanin
Lets see:That's very true
pic of you: checked
Long hair: checked
Lives in UK: checked
Frequents a online social forum: checked
Gotta be with a wm.
Exactly, country is just as fake as rapSupport New Country brehs
Support the most cookie cutter, bland genre of music brehs
accents faker than TI's