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15 Katrina Harper Katrina Harper toured the world with as a Raelett with the Ray Charles Orchestra after Charles heard her sing and was impressed with her vocal talent. Charles also invited her to sing a duet with him on his soulful arrangement of the Rodgers and Hammerstein song “People Will Say We’re In Love.” She toured with Charles until his final show in June 2003. Harper is now lead singer for the band Gonzo’s Funky Family conducted by drummer Daniel “Gonzo” Gonzalez, which performs throughout the New York City area. She is also continuing her work as an actress and songwriter, composing songs for her own album project. Ivan Hoffman Ivan Hoffman has been practicing entertainment and intellectual property law for over 39 years. He initially represented Ray Charles from 1971 until 1990 and has represented the Ray Charles Foundation since 2006. Hoffman represents clients in matters related to the music and recording industry, copyrights, trademarks, licensing, and contracts. Chi Gook Kim ’06 Chi Gook Kim, Berklee alumnus and assistant professor of music therapy, teaches a groundbreaking class on assistive music technology for visually impaired students at Berklee. His class incorporates digital audio workstations, notation software, and Braille music. The class was featured in major press such as Boston Globe and The Chronicle of Higher Education. As a producer, he participated in Stars Sing Out, an EMI album featuring the artists, Lily Allen, K. T. Tunstall, and Moby. As a composer, Kim has scored a number of independent films, including It Strikes Twice and Running from the Devil, both of which were featured at international film festivals. Allen Lowe Allen Lowe is a saxophonist, guitarist, and American music historian who has recorded with Julius Hemphill, David Murray, Don Byron, Marc Ribot, Roswell Rudd, Matthew Shipp, Lewis Porter, and Doc Cheatham. His last CD, Blues and the Empirical Truth, placed on a number of top ten lists for 2011, and was picked in the New Republic’s Top 15. He is working on a new recording project with JD Allen, Jon-Erik Kellso, Matthew Shipp, Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, Randy Sandke, Ursula Oppens, Noah Preminger, and others.
Michael Lydon Michael Lydon is the author of Ray Charles: Man and Music, a book that reviewers have called the definitive biography of “the genius.” A Boston native, Lydon studied clarinet at the South End Music School as a teenager, and is now a writer and musician who lives in New York City. A founding editor of Rolling Stone and author of Rock Folk, Boogie Lightning, and How to Play Classic Jazz Guitar, Lydon has written for the Atlantic Monthly, New York Times, and Village Voice. He is also a songwriter, playwright, and a member of ASCAP, AFofM local 802. Dave Marash In more than 50 years in the broadcast news business, Dave Marash has done many jobs: anchor, correspondent, analyst, play-by-play man, in local, network, and global TV and radio. He was won several awards, including a Du Pont, an Overseas Press Club, and 11 Emmy Awards for coverage ranging from war in Bosnia, to HIV in Zimbabwe, to terrorism, domestic and international, to the corruption of a major sewer project on Long Island, and the music of Washington, D.C. Recently Marash has been teaching video journalism and studying and consulting on the renaissance of video journalism worldwide. Tonette McKinney Tonette McKinney’s work as a member of the Raeletts for Ray Charles and the Ray Charles Orchestra has been the highlight of her career. Born in Shreveport, Louisiana and later moving to Los Angeles, California, McKinney has been singing and performing since the age of nine. After relocating to California she performed with a number of recording and performing artists. Jay Peterson Jay Peterson has been performing classic country western music since the early 1970s, when he was introduced to the music of Hank Williams, Bob Wills, and Patsy Cline by the driver of the bookmobile in his boyhood home of Anoka, Minnesota. Since that summer nearly 40 years ago, he has turned his musical attention backwards—as a historian, as host of a radio show The Rhythm Ranch, and as a performer—to the rich reservoir of country music as it was from the 1930s to the early 1960s. On his Greetings from Paradise Ranch he serves up songs from obscure Texas swing and cowboy yodeling to late ’50s honky-tonk, with a dose of Bessie Smith and Louis Jordan thrown in for good measure. His most recent recording project is a double CD tribute to the last Utah Phillips, Singing Through the Hard Times, on Ani DiFranco’s Righteous Babe label. Peterson lives in eastern Maine and performs with his two musical children, runs a small sign business, and has lectured on country music history at such institutions 16
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