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Ray Charles

Early Background Born September 23, 1930 and died June 10 2004. He was born to the poor black community on the western side of Greenville, Florida. Ray’s younger brother drowned in the their wash tub when he was four years old.

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Ray Charles

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  1. Early Background • Born September 23, 1930 and died June 10 2004. • He was born to the poor black community on the western side of Greenville, Florida. • Ray’s younger brother drowned in the their wash tub when he was four years old. • He started to lose his sight at the age of five, went completely blind by the age of seven because of glaucoma. • He developed his musical talent at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind. • His father past away when he was 10 and his mother 5 years later. • During school, he was taught only classical music but he had an urge to play the jazz and blues he heard on the family radio. • Achievements • He was the pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by combining rhythm and blues styles • He helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s. • He became one of the first African American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company. Ray Charles in 1990 • Individual Characteristics • Self determination • Resilience • Being optimistic • His passion for music led him to success • Adversity • He was blind • was arrested for possession of heroin, he was addicted to it for nearly 20 years. He fixed his addiction in a clinic in Los Angeles • Spent a year on parole in 1966, when his single ‘Crying Time’ reached no 6. on the charts. • Contribution • He supported Martin Luther King Jr in the 1960s during the Civil Rights Movement, he saw controversy when he toured South Africa in 1981 during an international boycott of the country because of its racial segregation policy. Ray Charles 'Ray Charles' 2011, Hutchinson's Biography Database, p. 1, Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre, EBSCOhost, viewed 14 September 2011. Mitchell, G 2010, 'THE LEGACY OF RAY CHARLES', Billboard, 122, 22, pp. 25-26, Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre, EBSCOhost, viewed 14 September 2011. 'Charles, Ray' 2010, Britannica Biographies, p. 1, Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre, EBSCOhost, viewed 14 September 2011. 'Charles, Ray' 2010, Britannica Biographies, p. 1, Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre, EBSCOhost, viewed 14 September 2011.

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