Ray Charles died Thursday June 10, 2004. He was 73. He left behind a long list of soul music hits and Grammy awards. He made a new genre of music. In so doing he changed what had previously been only a black and white territorial paper map of American music into a 3-D.
Ray Charles Robinson was born Sept. 23, 1930, in Albany, Ga. His father, Bailey Robinson, was a mechanic and a handyman, and his mother, Aretha, stacked boards in a sawmill. His family moved to the poor black community on the western side of Greenville, when Charles was an infant.
At age six he started to lose his sight from glaucoma after traumatically watching his brother drown in the washtub his mother used for take-in laundry. At the age of seven, from 1937 to 1945 he attended the St. Augu[NAVN E] School for the Deaf and Blind, where he learned piano, and later clarinet and alto saxophone. He learned to read and write music, and in the age of fifteen, Charles was out on his own performing in bands around Florida. At the age of seventeen Charles moved to Seattle. There he formed the Maxim trio, a group grounded in the style of Nat "King" Cole and Charles Brown. It was during this time that he first began using Heroin.
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