Ray Charles Birthday, Real Name, Age, Weight, Height, Family, Facts, Death Cause, Contact Details, Wife, Affairs, Bio & More
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PERSONAL INFORMATION
REAL NAME
Ray Charles Robinson
BIRTHDAY
BORN ON DAY
Tuesday
BIRTHPLACE
Albany, Georgia, United States
DIED AT AGE
73 Years 8 Months 17 Days
DEATHDATE
June 10, 2004
DEATHPLACE
Beverly Hills, California, United States
CAUSE OF DEATH
Liver disease
NATIONALITY
PROFESSION
ZODIAC
LIBRA
ALSO NOTED FOR
Musician, Songwriter, Composer
Physical Stats
CHEST
N/A
BICEPS
N/A
WAIST
N/A
HEIGHT
5'9''(feet & inches)
1.7526 meters
175.26 cm
WEIGHT
N/A
Ray Charles Family Members
Ray Charles Marriage, Affairs and Children
SPOUSE
Eileen Williams (1951-1952)
SPOUSE
Della Beatrice Howard Robinson (1955-1977)
Fame & Address
SIGNATURE
DEBUT
FAMOUS FROM/AS
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (1962)
ADDRESS
Beverly Hills, California, United States
www.facebook.com/RayCharles
Education, Net Worth & More
RELIGION
Baptist
SCHOOLING FROM
Morehouse College
RAY CHARLES PICTURE
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Some Lesser Known Facts About Ray Charles
- In his starting years, his interest was
towards the mechanical things after seeing his neighbors working with the cars and farm machines but one day at the age of three when he went to Wylie Pitman's Red Wing Cafe and listened to Pitman playing Boogie Woogie on an old piano, his interest in music start growing.
- He started learning piano by the Pitman and he and his family also live at Pitman's Red Wing Cafe when they were financially week. When he was age 3 or 4 his eyesight becomes week and at the age of seven, he totally lost his eyesight.
- He was expelled from the school because he played a prank on a teacher and after leaving a school with his mother's friend he moved to Jacksonville where for 1 year he played piano in the band at Ritz Theatre in LaVilla in which he earns $4 a night.
- He is the founder of the 'Ray Charles Foundation' whose aim is to support institutions or organization financially in research of hearing disorders.
- In the list of the '100 Greatest Artists of All Time', he was ranked at number 10 by rolling stone in 2002.
- After two months of his death, his final album 'Genius Loves Company' was released and this album got the total 8 Grammy awards.
- He loved to play chess and his board of chess was quite different chess board with raised squares and holes for the pieces.
- He got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1979 and in 1986 on the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame he was the first who was inducted at the inaugural ceremony.
- For many years he was suffering from the addiction of the drugs and even he was arrested by police because of his habit of the drug.
- He was the founder of his own record named Tangerine Records.
- Did Ray Charles takes alcohol? NA.
- Was Ray Charles in the habit of Smoking? NA.
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