Born in Albany, Georgia, he was blinded by glaucoma by the time he was 7 years old.
His full name: Ray Charles Robinson - friends called him "RC." He dropped the "Robinson" so he wouldn't be confused with the famous boxer Ray Robinson.
When Ray was 4, his younger brother George fell into a wash basin and drowned before Ray could get his mother for help. When Ray was 10, his father died.
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