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Real Name: Ray Charles Robinson
Birthday:
09/23/1930
Birthplace: Albany, Georgia, USA
Occupation: Singer
Sign: Libra
Death date:
06/10/2004
Death reason: Beverly Hills, California, USA. (liver failure)
He was married twice and had many girlfriends. He had 12 children, 20 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Blind from glaucoma since age 6. Awarded honorary doctor of humane letters by Wilberforce University, a private, historically black university in Wilberforce, Ohio (December 1999) Awarded the Polar Music Prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Music Award, in 1998. His best known hit in America was his 1962 pop hit "I Can't Stop Loving You," which spent five weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 charts. Had three #1 pop hits with "Georgia On My ...
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Blind since the age of six (from glaucoma), Charles studied composition and learned many instruments at the St. Augustine School for the Deaf and the Blind. His parents had died by his early teens, and he worked as a musician in Florida for a while before using his savings to move to Seattle in 1947. By the late '40s, he was recording in a smooth pop/R&B style derivative of Nat "King" Cole and Charles Brown. He got his first Top... |
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