“I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of," Ray Charles wrote in his 1978 autobiography, Brother Ray. "Music was one of my parts...like my blood... Like my blood. It was a force already with me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me, like food or water.” As one of the most original American recording artists to emerge in the 20th century, Charles’ music got into the blood of generations of admirers as well....