Ray Charles

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Ray Charles was born on Septemeber 23, 1930, the son of a sharecropper. He began to lose his sight when he was five and fully lost it when he was seven. He started playing piano with bands when he was fifteen, and started his first band the next year. He first started recording in 1952, and he played and sang all sorts of genres including blues, jazz, and ballads. He was very loved by his fans. The climax of his career was in the late 1950s, but it slowly began to fall as rock became a more popular genre. He died of hepatitis C on June 10, 2004, at the age of 73. He was an inspirational man and performer who left a great legacy of music. One of his most famous song is Hit the Road Jack
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