Google has created today a Ray Charles logo for Ray Charles birthday date and put it at the frontpage of Google.com.
Ray Charles (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was a pioneering pianist and soul singer who helped shape the sound of rhythm and blues and brought a soulful sound to everything from country music to pop standards to "God Bless America". His birth name was Ray Charles Robinson, but he shortened it when he entered show business to avoid confusion with the famous boxer Sugar Ray Robinson.
Born in Albany, Georgia, Charles began going blind at around age five and was totally blind by age seven. He said that the causes were undiagnosed, but many believe it was as a result of glaucoma. Just before his eyes began to fail, he had seen his younger brother drown in a washtub. He attended school at the St. Augustine School for the Deaf and the Blind in St. Augustine, Florida as a charity case. There, he not only learned how to read Braille, but to write music and play various instruments.
By the time he was 15, both his parents had passed away. Charles began working as a musician in Florida, eventually moving to Seattle, Washington in 1947. He soon started recording, achieving his first hit song with "Baby, Let Me Hold Your Hand" (1951)...
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GREAT !
Ray , We can't stop loving you
Sing it, baby - up there -
Posted by: Ezio Drappo | September 23, 2004 at 11:43 AM
very nice and very clever
Posted by: al | September 23, 2004 at 01:24 PM
google, you did it again!!!!!!! GREAT!
Posted by: julie | September 23, 2004 at 01:59 PM