The Legendary Musician, Ray Charles Robinson Essay -- Biography Biogra

The Legendary Musician, Ray Charles Robinson Ray Charles Robinson was born on September 23, 1930 in Albany Georgia. Hisfather was Bailey Robinson, a railroad repair man, and his mother wasRetha. His father never married his mother. His legal wife was Mary Jane,who also helped to raise Charles. By the time he was three, young Charles was learning to play the piano.When he was five his brother, who was three at the time, drowned. A fewmonths later Charles got the disease that would make him go blind by thetime he was seven. After he became totally blind at the age of seven, Charles went to aschool for the blind in St. Augustine, Florida, where he learned to playthe trumpet, the saxophone, the clarinet, and organ, though his preferredinstrument is still the piano. When Charles was 15, his mother died from food poisoning. He decided tobecome a musician soon afterward and he set out on his own. He played withvarious band throughout Florida until he was seventeen. He then wanted toget as far away as possible from Tampa and also stay in the United...