Is Ray Charles The Father Of The Modern Era Of Music (Rock/R&B/Top 40)

Listen the style of rock is all little richard the screaming the wild style is his

I think Ray Charles spawned Sly and The Family Stone and a lot of Prince's musical timing breaks, but I'd actually have to give this modern era from 1980 until the present to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder. Their styles broke enough from Ray Charles to be considered there own and so many singers today from: Usher, Chris Brown, Bruno Mars, Justin timberlake all the way to about 60 others I can keep naming have mimicked Michael's dancing and singing moves (and some of them aren't even aware). The way they use the vibrato is directly linked to Michael Jackson and no other singer.
Now the way they run the scale of their vibrato and skip notes using their voices to stretch and then go up and down in the same breath using vibrato is directly the dna solely attributed to Stevie Wonder. This is for men and women, black and white. Wanye from Boys II Men used to get on my nerves doing it. I wish more singers would Just stick to one damn note like Bill Withers.

Ray, of course laid his mark on Stevie the way Stevie laid his mark on MJ but they were all different enough to patent their own styles the same way Ray was influenced by Nat King Cole yet managed to create his own style.
Problem with modern music is, many artists aren't creating a new style or even expanding on old styles. Instead they are mimicking an old style and doing it less artistically than their influences.

I'm speaking as someone who owns: RAy charles music and used to go to his concerts as a kid with my Dad at Stone mountain, and a fan of: Jackie Wilson, Ray Charles, Little Richard, James Brown, Little Stevie Wonder/the boy wonder, Nat King Cole, Sly and the Family Stone list can keep going

Chris Powell and the Five Blue Flames - Rock the Joint
1949
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOMvCbm8o30

Roy Brown Boogie At Midnight
1949
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNtrxNMD514

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