ray charles
Ray Charles Robinson was born in 1932 in Albany, Georgia, he lost his eye sightas a child and studied at the Saint Augustine, Florida, School for the blind. At three years old Charles was already trying to involve himself in music. Charles knew a man named Wylie Pitman who was one of the first people to encourage him in music. When Charles was a child he would jump in the chair next to Pitman and bang the keys with all his fingers. Pitman would say to him, "Oh no, son, you don't play like that; you don't hit the keys with all your fingers at one time. I'm going to show you how to play a little melody with one finger." Pitman could have said, hey kid get away IM practicing, but he didn't. He let him play and sit in to learn the piano. Things started to change fast shortly after that. The first major tragedy in Charles life was seeing his younger brother a very bright and talented kid, drown in a washtub when he was five years old. At first Charles thought he was playing, but it dawned on him that he was drowning. Charles tried to save him but he was too heavy for him to pick up, out of the washtub. This was very traumatic for Charles, and after that he started to loose his sight. They tried to save his sight for
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