When I am looking to visit a new country, state, city or town, I like to have a good idea of what events took place in the history and who lived there. To me finding a room at one of the modern hotels around Georgia, click here, is like putting myself into such an historical state. The history of the area and the famous people who came from there is truly amazing. There is so much about the early American Wars, so much to fill the museums all over the state. The people like Martin Luther King Jr. and Jimmy Carter are amazing figures that contributed so much to our country. There are endless entertainers and athletes that come from the state of Georgia it is so incredible.

One of those most incredible musicians is Ray Charles. He is a true legend of American music history. He was considered a music genius and his career started in the 1950s. His learning of himself and the music he created was endless. The soul he put into his music was undeniable ignited by his early life living in the south with country, blues, gospel, big band and jazz music all around him. He was born during the depression and that was a heavy line that ran through his family as they struggled to put food on the table. He was fairly happy until the age of five.

Age five is when he witnessed his brother drown in the portable laundry tub. Soon after he went blind by the age of seven. His mother, however, wouldn’t let him loose himself in pity and worked with him to be independent even though he could not see. He was always interested in playing the piano and so he became a charity student at the St. Augustine school for the deaf and blind. That is where he received his musical training. He learned to score music in braille.
He liked all the greats of major music categories and he studied them well. He went on to have quite the up and down hill ride in life but also inspired generations of people both now gone and not yet born.