Ray Charles Robinson Sr. (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was a singer, composer, and pianist from the United States. He is regarded as one of the most famous and influential singers in history and was often referred to as “The Genius” by his contemporaries. He favored the moniker “Brother Ray” among his friends and other artists.
How did Ray Charles lose his sight?
Ray Charles had an early interest in mechanical devices and would frequently see his neighbors working on their cars and agricultural machines. At the age of three, he was piqued by Wylie Pitman’s Red Wing Cafe, where Pitman performed boogie woogie on an antique upright piano; Pitman later taught Charles how to play the piano. Charles and his mother were always welcomed at the Red Wing Cafe, and they even lived there when they were in financial trouble. Pitman would also look after Ray’s younger brother George, relieving their mother of some of the stress. When George was four years old, he drowned by accident in his mother’s laundry tub.
Charles began losing his sight at the age of four or five and was blind by the age of seven, most likely due to glaucoma. Aretha Robinson, destitute, illiterate, and grieving the loss of her younger son, used her neighborhood connections to find a school that would take a blind African-American student. From 1937 to 1945, despite his protests, Charles attended the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind in St. Augustine.
At what age did Ray Charles lose his sight?
Charles began losing his sight at the age of four or five and was blind by the age of seven, most likely due to glaucoma.
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