Ray Charles: musical genius Ray Charles is considered a musical genius in many different fields. He has a large success in pop, jazz, blues, country, gospel and western. Acknowledged as an all around-entertainer, from being an expert pianist vocalist and saxophonist. Charles started receiving popular attention in around the 1950's as the inventor of soul music. He once defined soul music,"soul music is when you are able to convey the meaning of a song and make people feel it, make them think, Oh, Ray, you must had the experience because there's no way you could have sung that song unless it happened to you."(Jet Magazine)
Ray Charles Robinson was born in Albany, Georgia, on September 23, 1930. His father, Bailey Robinson, was a mechanic and a handyman, and his mother Aretha, stacked boards in a sawmill. When Charles was and infant his parents moved to Greenville, Florida. While they were in Greenville a neighbor started to give Charles piano lessons after he taught himself at......

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