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Ray charles the great was born. His mothers name was Arethra Robinson and father was Bailey Robinson
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he lived a well 73 years
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At the age of 4 ray witnesses the sight of watching his younger brother drowning in a big wash tub
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he was suffering from glacoma for the last 2 years and then finally he went completely blind
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right after his blindness had been confimed he attended the school for the blind and deaf
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At the age of 12 he learned how to read and arrange music.
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At th age of 15 he had learned of his mothers death while in St. Augustine and his father had died an unknown amount of years earlier so he had no where to go.
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With no immediate family he had o find work so he went to the state of florida and started to play in small road bands every now and then, so at the age of 18 he had been fully accustomed to road trips but he got hooked on to heroin at this time
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Once he had gathered around 600$ from performances he had traveled to West Coast, Seattle where he met someone who would later do many hits with the famous Quincy Jones.
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Near the end of 1951 he Swingtime had dropped Ray and was then picked up by Ahmet Ertugum and Herb Abramson with a contract of 2.5 Grand.
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His official voice had been aquired and so his formative years came to an end and just spent the rest singing but at this time he had diovorced his wife of only 16 months and subsequntly remarried a women by the name of Dolla
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At this time Ray had learned to mix blues and gospel together to make Soul music but it his soul mussic was official when he made the song i got a women, the only problem was that Ahmet Erteguns brother Nesuhi Ertegun had told ray that this was done once before
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with the releasing of his album "The Genious of ray charles" it officially put him as the father of soul.
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he died of pancreatic cancer in a hospital on this date.
