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Ray Charles
Transcript
Ray Charles
Quote
web sources
''I can't retire from music anymore than I can retire my liver. you'd have to remove the music from me surgically-like you were taking out my appendix.''
-Ray Charles
- www.biography.com
- www.swingmusic.net
Achievements
obstacles and problems
- When ray was just an infant he witnessed the death of his younger brother.
- Ray's mother sent him to a school for the blind and the deaf, that's where Ray learned to read, write, and arrange music in braille.
- Ray also learned how to play a piano, organ, sax, clarinet, and trumpet.
- in 1935 Charles had commercial success when he arranged to play piano on the Bluesman guitar slims recording. which sold millions.
- After Ray witnessed the death of his brother, he started to lose his sight gradually.
- At the age of fifteen, Ray picked up a love for heroin.
- At age 7 Ray lost his sight completely.
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