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Ray Charles Robinson, grave or crypt, tombstone, Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California, photo

Ray Charles Robinson, grave or crypt, tombstone, Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California, photo

The grave or crypt of Ray Charles Robinson, better known simply as Ray Charles. Charles was born September 23, 1930 at Albany, Georgia. He started losing his sight as a young boy and by age seven was fully blind, apparently from glaucoma. Despite the difficulties caused by his blindness, he was able to learn to read music from braille and to play the piano. At the age of 19, the song Confession Blues became his first national hit. Numerous other popular recordings followed including I Got A Woman (1954), What'd I Say (1959), Georgia On My Mind (1960), Hit The Road Jack (1961), I Can't Stop Loving You (1962), Busted (1963), Take These Chains From My Heart (1963), Crying Time (1966) and America, The Beautiful (1972).

Charles, despite being blind, enjoyed playing chess. He used a specialized chess board which enabled him to properly locate the positions of the chess pieces on the board.

Ray Charles Robinson died in Beverly Hills, California as the result of liver disease on June 10, 2004. He was 73 years old. His remains are buried in a crypt within the Mausoleum of the Golden West in Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California.

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