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RAY CHARLES
MUSICIAN |
| By: |
Janet Hubbard-Brown |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£32.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1604130016 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781604130010 |
| Publisher: |
CHELSEA HOUSE PUBLISHERS |
| Pub. date: |
1 June, 2008 |
| Pages: |
112 |
| Description: |
Pioneering musician Ray Charles was one of the first performers of soul music - a combination of gospel, jazz, country, and rhythm and blues. Born into poverty to a single mother, he overcame blindness, racism, and the deaths of his bother and mother to play 10,000 concerts and win 12 Grammy Awards over a 58-year career. |
| Synopsis: |
This biography looks at the life of Ray Charles, from the abject disadvantage of being orphaned, black and blind in the South of the 1930s to the height of international success. |
| Illustrations: |
full-colour & black-&-white photographs |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Chelsea House Publishers |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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