Ray Charles

SUCCESSES

Bio

OVERCOME

Obstacles

He left school at age 15 to play the piano

His father had died when the boy was 10

He attended the Augustine School for the deaf and blind

At the age of five, Charles watched his four-year-old brother drown in a laundry tub despite his efforts to save the boy

He began to go blind at six

He made several records for the Swingtime record company

Charles's singing of romantic songs continued in the smooth tradition of Nat King Cole

A television ad for Pepsi in the 1990s helped make sure that Charles would be known to a new generation of music lovers

He appeared in films such as Ballad in Blue, The Blues Brothers, Limit Up, and Spy Hard

He won ten Grammy Awards from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

He was blindness and poverty

His mother's death

His brother's death

Apartheid and discrimination

He overcame his father's death

He was struggling with a powerful drug addiction

He endured all these obstacles and continued to be one of the greatest musicians of our time

He love music

He can play piano and singing very well

He work with many famous people

He use his final money to make a orchestra