Effective period / Period of releases: 1959 - 2021

Members: Merry Clayton, Edna Wright, Vermettya Royster, Alex Brown, Clydie King, Margie Hendrix, Susaye Greene, Dorothy Berry, Mable John, Gerri Hall, Priscilla Lyles, Gwendolyn Berry, Madelyn Quebec, Vernita Moss, Estella Yarbrough, Rita Graham, Charnissa, Darlene McCrea

Ray Charles’s female backing singers. Also credited as The Raelets or The Raeletts.
Ray Charles formed the Raelets in 1958 by recruiting two members from The Cookies Darlene McCrea and Margie Hendrix with two more women Priscilla Lyles and Gwendolyn Berry.
Since then the group has had many members come and go, among them artists such as Edna Wright and Mable John, Minnie Riperton, Merry Clayton, Clydie King of the Blackberries, and latter-day Supreme Susaye Greene.