Genius Loves Company is the final studio album by rhythm and blues and soul musician Ray Charles, posthumously released August 31, 2004, on Concord Records. Recording sessions for the album took place between June 2003 and March 2004.

Ray Charles first black artist to own his master recordings. If you saw the movie, then you know about the scene when he was about to sign with ABC records and he asked if he could own his masters, and the record executive said come on Ray no artist owns their masters, not even Frank Sinatra.

Genius is an American digital media company founded on August 27, 2009, by Tom Lehman, Ilan Zechory, and Mahbod Moghadam.

The word itself is Latin, and for the ancient Romans who first used it and then bequeathed the term to us, a genius was a guardian spirit, a god of one's birth who accompanied individuals throughout life, connecting them to the divine.

Owning your masters means you own the copyright to the original sound recordings of your music. The copyright of the Sound Recording is generally owned by the artist or record label that they are signed to.

The Ray Charles Foundation The Ray Charles Foundation owns the rights to all his post-Atlantic recordings (with the exception of the Friendship album on Columbia/Sony) and they are available for licensing on a worldwide basis. Additionally, The Foundation owns the publishing on such classics as “Hit The Road Jack” and others.

Genius is an American digital media company founded on August 27, 2009, by Tom Lehman, Ilan Zechory, and Mahbod Moghadam. Its website serves as an online music encyclopedia allowing users to provide annotations and interpretation to song lyrics, news stories, sources, poetry, and documents.

Genius, on the other hand, involves originality, creativity, and the ability to think and work in areas not previously explored - thus giving the world something of value that would not otherwise exist.

: extraordinary intellectual power especially as manifested in creative activity. c. : a person endowed with extraordinary mental superiority. especially : a person with a very high IQ. genius.

Though in the past artists who have owned their masters have clung to them, in recent years, it has seemed like a more lucrative move to sell a portion of the rights to music they've already made money off of with the assumption being more hits and more money are coming in the future.

The owner has in hand and controls the copyrights (publishing, sync or master rights) to songs included in this music catalogue and receives income by the generated music royalties each time the music is being consumed and used.

The music industry is concentrated and dominated by three main players. According to Music & Copyright, the three largest record labels - Universal Music Group (32% market share), Sony Music Entertainment (20%), and Warner Music Group (16%) - hold a 68% share of the music recording market.

The copyright of the Sound Recording is generally owned by the artist or record label that they are signed to. Whoever owns the master recordings will earn royalties when the song is played or reproduced (including radio, streaming, downloads).

A virtuoso is an incredibly talented musician. You can also be a virtuoso in non-musical fields. A politician who helps pass a lot of bills might be called a legislative virtuoso.