Ray Charles

Ray Charles‘s source of wealth comes from being a soul singer. How much money is Ray Charles worth at the age of 94 and what’s his real net worth now?

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Ray Charles (born September 23, 1930) is famous for being soul singer. He currently resides in Albany, GA. The Godfather of Soul Music who pioneered R&B and popular music with hits such as “Hit the Road Jack” and “Crying Time.” He earned 17 Grammy Awards over the course of his long, successful career.

Ray Charles is a Libra and was born in The Year of the Horse

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Ray Charles was born in Albany, GA on Tuesday, September 23, 1930 (Silent Generation generation). He is 94 years old and is a Libra. Ray Charles (I) (1930–2004) Soundtrack | Music Department | Actor Date of Birth 23 September 1930, Albany, Georgia, USA Date of Death 10 June 2004, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (liver failure) Birth Name Raymond Charles Robinson Nicknames The Genius of Soul Brother Ray The High Priest Height 5′ 9″ (1.75 m) Mini Bio (1) A tragic fate may have given this visionary a heightened sensitivity, perception, awareness, even expansion to his obvious musical gifts that he may have never touched upon had he not suffered from his physical affliction. Whatever it was, Ray Charles revolutionized American music and was catapulted to legendary status by the time he died in Beverly Hills at age 73. Born to Aretha and Baily Robinson, an impoverished Albany, Georgia, family that moved to Greenville, Florida while he was still an infant. It was not a cause for joy and celebration. His father soon abandoned the family and his baby brother, George Robinson, drowned in a freak washtub accident. Ray himself developed glaucoma at the age of five and within two years had lost his sight completely. A singer in a Baptist choir, he developed a love and feel for rhythms and studied music at the State School for Deaf and Blind Children, showing which brought out his talent and ear for playing various instruments, including the piano and clarinet. An orphan by his early teens, Ray joined a country band at age 16 called The Florida Playboys. He moved to Seattle in 1948 where he and Southern guitarist Gossady McGee formed the McSon Trio. With an emphasis on easy-styled jazz, Ray also played in bebop sessions on the sly. He departed from the McSon Trio and signed with Los Angeles-based Swing Time Records, becoming the pianist for rhythm and blues great Lowell Fulson and his band. Atlantic Records eventually picked him up. Along the road he would add composer, writer and arranger to his formidable list of talents. Ray’s first R&B hit was “Confession Blues” in Los Angeles in 1949. In 1951, he had his first solo chart buster with “Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand”. His amazing versatility and raw, soulful delivery quickly caught on with audiences and helped put Atlantic Records on the map. Hits like “Mess Around”, “Things I Used to Do”, “A Fool for You”, “I’ve Got a Woman”, “Drown in My Own Tears”, and especially “What’d I Say” in 1959, pushed gospel and R&B to a wider crossover audience. He made a move into the country music arena–unheard of for a black singer–in the 1960s, doing soulful spins on Hank Williams and Eddy Arnold tunes. In 1960, he left Atlantic and signed with ABC-Paramount. Under ABC-Paramount, hits poured out during this peak time with “I Can’t Stop Loving You”, “Hit the Road Jack”, “Busted” and his beloved signature song “Georgia On My Mind”. His landmark 1962 album “Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music” brought a new swinging style to country music. From there, he traveled a mainstream route–from interpreting songs from The Beatles (“Eleanor Rigby”) to appearing in “Diet Pepsi” ads (“You Got the Right One, Baby, Uh-huh!”). He also showed up sporadically in films, playing himself in the movie Ballad in Blue (1965) and guest-starring in The Blues Brothers (1980) with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. A television musical variety favorite with his trademark dark sunglasses and dry humor, he worked alongside such musical legends as Ella Fitzgerald and Barbra Streisand on their very special evenings of song. It is hard to believe that with everything he accomplished, Ray also had to deal with a longstanding heroin problem. In the mid-1960s, he was arrested for possession of heroin and marijuana and revealed that he had been addicted for nearly two decades. By 1965, he had completely recovered. The man who lived life on the edge was divorced twice and had 12 children both in and outside his marriages. At the time of his death from liver disease in 2004, he was working on a recording project of duets with such performers as Wi… After releasing the hit single “Georgia on My Mind,” he cancelled a concert when he found out that the audience would be segregated. He was sued for breach of contract and fined $757.

He went blind due to glaucoma when he was seven and started contemplating the world in terms of sounds. When he was fifteen, he left school and started playing piano for bands in Jacksonville, Florida. Ray Charles Robinson attended Florida School for the Deaf and Blind, St. Augustine, Florida, United States. Ray Charles is a member of Richest Celebrities and Soul Singers.