Media outlets have become so quick to feed the public feel-good stories about the singer that routine fact-checking seems to be getting overlooked, as a recently viral story shows.
The producer, who died this month at 53, crafted career-defining records by Mary J. Blige, Faith Evans and The Notorious B.I.G., armed with a desire to understand his artists as people first.
Ray Charles is best known for recording hit soul and R&B songs. His album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, recorded in the 60s, spent 14 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard pop albums chart.
A federal trial involving disgraced singer R. Kelly has begun in a Brooklyn courtroom. The charges against Kelly include sexual exploitation of a child, bribery, kidnapping and racketeering.
Country artist George Birge saw a popular TikTok skewering the way men in his genre write music and decided to issue himself a songwriting challenge. The result? "Beer Beer, Truck Truck."
The charges that R. Kelly faces in New York include racketeering "to prey upon young women and teenagers" and sexually trafficking these girls and women between states.