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Ray Charles is born in Albany, Georgia at the begnning of the great derprssion
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Ray is diagnosed completely blind at age 7
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At the age of 15 Rays parents left him and he became an orphan
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Ray began to attend a school for the blind in Florida
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After his schooling Ray moved to Seattle Washington to start his music career
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Ray recoreded his first hit and began a lifelong friendshiip with Guincy Jones
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The Ray Charles Foundation is created to support people with hearing and sight disorders
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Ray died in his California home of Liver Cancer