The Movie Ray Research Paper

I did the music video review on the movie Ray. Ray is a musical biography about the career of entertainer Ray Charles. The movie focuses on the trials, tribulations, and triumphs that he faced throughout his career and how he overcame adversity to become one of the most beloved entertainers the world has ever had. The movie begins in 1950 which was right before Ray Charles became a big star.
Throughout the film Ray had frequent flashbacks to when he was a young boy in the 1930s. The flashbacks focused on Ray’s childhood as a poor southern boy being raised by his mother who was a poor sharecropper and his little brother, George who drowned when Ray was just five years old. Ray had a very strong and resilient mother who refused to let Ray use his blindness as a reason for him to not be successful in life. Ray’s mother eventually sent him to a school for the deaf and blind in Florida.
The movie begins by showing Ray on the bus on his way to Seattle, Washington in 1950. Ray had heard about Seattle club performances and he headed to Seattle to go to the club and check out the musical performances there. This was also where he met Quincy Jones right outside of the club. Eventually, he ended up performing and the crowd loved him. Ray basically started his music career at the club.
Ray has a sound that was very comparable to jazz singer Nat
Overall, I think Ray was an excellent movie. I learned so much about Ray Charles as an entertainer and some of the issues that he went through in the music industry. Additionally, I learned so much about how mixing different styles of music can make a beautiful and unique sound. I also think that the movie was very inspirational because Ray had to overcome so many obstacles to become the big star that he was. It enhanced my musical knowledge because I learned that R&B music can be mixed with gospel, pop, country, jazz and blues