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Early Years
Ray Charles Robinson was born in Albany,Georgia.His mother, Aretha Williams,and his father,Bailey Robinson never got married.His family was very poor and his mother stacked boards in a sawmill and his father was a mechanic and handyman. His family moved to Greenville,Florida when Ray was just a baby.When Ray was five years old,he saw his little brother,George,drown in a big portable laundry tub.When Ray was six,he started to lose his sight,but he had no idea why. He went fully blind when he was seven.His parents took a guess that glaucoma was the cause to his blindness.He went to St. Augustine School for the Deaf and the Blind in Florida. There he also learned to write music and play different kinds of instruments.While he was at his school,his mother died.Two years after that,his father died.Just before Ray left from school,he was in a couple of bands such as a hillbilly band named "The Florida Playboys".

Just a Little Bit about Ray Charles
Ray Charles was not only known as himself.He was also known as "The Genius" and "Brother Ray".He was born on September 23 1930 in Albany,Georgia,United States.He died June 10th 2004 at age 73 in Beverly Hills,California,United States by a liver disease. His type of music wasR&B,soul,blues,pop,country,jazz,gospel, piano blues,country blues,country soul and soul blues.Things Ray enjoyed to do were to sing, write songs,be a musician,be an arranger and be a bandleader.The instruments he liked to play were piano,alto saxophone,organ,clarinet and trumpet.The years he played music were from 1947-2004.The labels he had on his albums were Atlantic,ABC and Warner Bros. Record.Ray's influences were clarinetist Artie Shaw,pianists Duke Ellington and Count Basie,jazz piano giant Art Tatum,alto sax man and vocalist and bandleader Louis Jordan,and the great classical composers like Chopin and Sibelius.