Interesting facts about Ray Charles.

1)He was not always blind, he didn’t actually go completely blind until he was seven due to glaucoma.
2)Georgia on my mind was originally written by Hoagy Carmichael amd Stuart Gorrell.
3)Ray Charles endorsed the American product “Diet Pepsi.”
4)In 1965 Charles was jailed for one year with possession of heroin.
5)He played a character named “Ray” in the movie “The blues brothers.”
6)In 1996 he played a bus driver in the movie “Spy Hard.”
7)In 1948 Charles and some of his friends formed the McSon Trio.
8)Charles gained the nickname “The Genius.”
9)The name of his major record label was Atlantic.
10)He also gained the nickname “Brother Ray.”