Ray himself developed glaucoma at the age of five and within two years had lost his sight completely. His father soon abandoned the family and his baby brother, George Robinson, drowned in a freak washtub accident.
It was not a cause for joy and celebration. Whatever it was, Ray Charles revolutionized American music and was catapulted to legendary status by the time he died in Beverly Hills at age 73.īorn on September 23, 1930, to Aretha and Baily Robinson, an impoverished Albany, Georgia, family that moved to Greenville, Florida while he was still an infant.
A tragic fate may have given this visionary a heightened sensitivity, perception, awareness, even expansion to his obvious musical gifts that he may have never touched upon had he not suffered from his physical affliction.
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