Ray Charles Ray Charles Robinson was born in 1932 in Albany, Georgia, he lost his eye sight as 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 …showed first 75 words of 1300 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1300 total…to music today. He has won numerous awards in in his life some of them inculde: the induction into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 1979 , he was the first performer to be so honored. He has recieved numerous awards from Afro American studies groups at campuses across the United States, most recently fom the University of California at Los Angeles. In march 1994 he recieved a Lifetime Achievement Award as part of the ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**