What disability did Ray Charles have from childhood?
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blindness
He went blind at around age seven.
💡 Did you know? He still played piano virtuosically.
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What was Ray Charles’s nickname?
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The Genius
He fused styles that had been kept apart.
💡 Did you know? Frank Sinatra is said to have coined it.
Which instrument did Ray Charles master?
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piano
He sang and played at the same time.
💡 Did you know? His playing was rhythmic and bluesy.
In which Charles hit does a woman throw her man out in call-and-response?
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Hit the Road Jack
A call-and-response with backing singers.
💡 Did you know? He won a Grammy with it.
Which Charles song became the official anthem of his home state in 1979?
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Georgia on My Mind
Later became the official song of the US state Georgia.
💡 Did you know? Charles grew up in Georgia and Florida.
Which genre did Ray Charles help create?
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Soul
He brought gospel feeling into secular songs.
💡 Did you know? This paved the way for later soul stars.
Which country was Ray Charles from?
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USA
Born in 1930 in Georgia.
💡 Did you know? He lived in Los Angeles for a long time.
Which Charles song grew out of an improvisation in 1959, when there was still time to fill at the end of a show?
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What’d I Say
The song is seen as an early soul milestone.
💡 Did you know? It was partly improvised on stage.
Which genre-crossing album did Charles record in 1962?
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Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
A Black soul star recording country songs: unusual at the time.
💡 Did you know? It became a huge success.
What is the 2004 film about Ray Charles called?
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Ray
Jamie Foxx won an Oscar as Charles.
💡 Did you know? Charles died shortly before the film’s release.
Which 1962 Charles hit turned a country song into a soul million-seller?
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I Can’t Stop Loving You
From the ‘Modern Sounds’ album.
💡 Did you know? A worldwide number-one hit.
What was often part of Ray Charles’s stage image (accessory)?
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sunglasses
They became his signature.
💡 Did you know? He also swayed characteristically at the piano.
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