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Ray charles personal life has a big impact on his life. He was born September 23rd, 1930. Ray became blind at the age of 7. He has had 12 children with 9 diffrent womenin his [|Marrige]. He was not personal with his children but gave them each 1 million few years befor he passed. Both his parents had past away by the time he was 15 due to cancer of his mother. For many years Ray had an addiction to heroin. It was untill his son called him a addict that he went to rehab. In his late years he had acute liver disease and died at the age of 73 on June 10th, 2004.



Charles father was Aretha Williams. He was a sharecropper. He was religious and went to New shiloh Church. When Ray was little his family moved from Georgia to Jellyroll in Florida. He liked to play chess as a hobby and his board had holes for the peices and raised squares. Ray started to lose his sight at the age of five. He went completely blind by the age of seven. Some say his blindness was due to glaucoma. Most say that Ray began to lose his sight from an infection caused by soapy water in his eyes that he never washed out. He attended school at the Florida schoolfor the death and blind and developed his musical talent.