Ray charles was born and raised until he was 15 in rural georgia.
Blind piano player black.
This talented black piano player developed his talent at school in early years and was taught classical piano by his music teacher using the braille method of reading.
His music helped to inspire other blind black musicians such as the famous stevie wonder.
He went on to win world acclaim for his southern blues music style.
This blind black piano player was a singer songwriter and pianist right up until the day he passed away in 2004.
The word gifted being something of an understatement.
Ray charles was famouse black blind piano player.
Now 66 years old it s interesting to speculate whether the child prodigy would have become one of our most famous blind.
With the nickname the genius this blind black piano player was one of the most well known who transformed the american soul music genre in the 50s and 60s.
Matthew whitaker has been rocking crowds with his improvisational piano playing for most of his short life.
Inspired by the famous roy charles stevie grew to become one of the most phenomenal and inspiring musician and pianist in the black race.
He was not born blind but instead lost his eyesight at the age of 7.
The famous blind black singer and piano player stevie wonder was born six weeks early and lost his vision in infancy due to a combination of retinopathy from premature birth and receiving too much oxygen in his incubator.
Born in 1930 he is an outstanding songwriter singer and pianist.
List of talented blind piano players ray charles.
Another black blind piano player we can t dare to miss out is stevie wonder.
Born on 1950 stevie lost his sight the same way as roy and grew up playing musical instruments in his local church such as the.
He was a self taught musician that was orphaned at 15.
For those not aware of his talents a quick synopsis of his achievements all achieved before he reached the age of 25.
Along with being an inspiration ray charles was a pioneer in the genre of soul music.