Ray Charles, the Grammy-winning crooner who blended gospel and blues in such crowd-pleasers as “What'd I Say” and heartfelt ballads like “Georgia on My Mind,” died Thursday, a spokesman said. He was 73.
Blind by age 7 and an orphan at 15, Charles spent his life shattering any notion of musical boundaries and defying easy definition. A gifted pianist and saxophonist, he dabbled in country, jazz, big band and blues, and put his stamp on it all with a deep, warm voice roughened by heartbreak from a hardscrabble childhood in the segregated South.
heard it on the radio half an hour ago.
sad.
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I know :(
Where've you been all day?
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oops… sorry
am in linz, i.e. have to wait for a vacant computer to log on… family… ;)
besides, was really enjoying the sunshine yesterday.
today, of course, it is pouring down again. typical the-weekend-has-landed weather. :s but then it isn't very often that i hear thunder at 6 in the morning, so i guess i should really enjoy it…
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I figured as much, but I missed you :) Thunderstorms rock, and there hasn't been a good one here in a while. Enjoy it for me, will you?
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