Ray Charles' blindness

Rating: Null/10 (30 January 2005)

Let me begin this post by saying that I am legally, but not totally, blind. Ray Charles attended school at the Florida State School for the Blind in St. Augustine, FL, and I attended school at Georgia Academy for the Blind in Macon, GA. I think that Ray Charles was a real man and I don't think this statement can be applied to a few other blind musicians that come to mind; namely Ronnie Milsap and Stevie Wonder. The way Ray Charles stood up for himself and was also a bit of a wild man broke the stereotype of the blind musician that, after the sessions and after the show, is out of sight and out of mind. I have had this opinion of Ray Charles long before this movie came out. Most of Ray's music is before my time so it's not that I'm a huge fan. Even the book REAL MEN DON'T EAT CUICH (sp? I know I misspelled this) considers Ray Charles a real man.