Sheila ray charles biography

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Vocalist, songwriter, and Recording Academy member, Sheila Raye Charles, the daughter of legendary music icon Ray Charles and Sandra Jean Betts, passed away last Thursday, June 15th after a gallant battle with breast cancer. Sheila Raye was 53.

Sheila Raye has traveled across the United States and abroad spreading her message of love and redemption while also keeping her legendary father’s memory alive through song, worship, and praise.

In 2013, her travels led her to Savannah singing her late father’s songs at the 2013 Savannah’s Black Heritage Festival. During her stay she included a breakout performance in an impromptu solo at Narobia’s Grits and Gravy. She also preached at the Royal Church of Christ. Sheila Raye Charles was always ready to engage her audiences in a soulful, melodious, spiritual experience. Ms. Charles loved Georgia and made the Peach State her home for several years in honor of her famous father, Ray Charles. Indeed, no matter where her travels took her, she kept ‘Georgia on her mind’!

Charles, a recovered crack addict and former prisoner, used her experience to inspire released prisoners in their effort to successfully reintegrate into society. She has shared her testimony in institutions around the world, including the Chatham County Jail and Coasta

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Sheila Raye Charles, daughter of music legend Ray Charles, is coming to Hutchinson to share her music and the heart-wrenching story of her path from abuse, cocaine and prison to faith and recovery.

Charles will appear at 7 p.m. Monday at Riverside Church, 20924 State Highway 7. All are invited. There is no charge to attend, but a free will donation is welcome.

“We’ll have a lot of fun and get the audience involved,” Charles, a talented singer and songwriter, said during a telephone interview. “I’ll sing some Ray and some songs I wrote myself. People can expect for God to show up.”

“As a child I dreamed of a ‘Father Knows Best’ family,” Charles said. “I wanted to know my father as more than a voice on the radio.”

Ray Charles, who fathered 12 children with nine different women, was hardly a dedicated family man. In fact, Sheila Raye didn’t meet her father until she was 12. “I had to make an appointment with his secretary,” she said.

So infrequent were her father’s visits, Charles looked for ways to ease the pain. “I used to save my father’s orange peels. They got old and crusty,” she said. “I wanted something he had touched. My mother told me ‘You have his blood running through you.’”

At 15, Charles ran away from home,