Rolling Stoneのインスタグラム(rollingstone) - 9月7日 08時00分

Using Braille, #RayCharles learned to read and write music at the St. Augustine School in Florida, and became proficient on piano, clarinet, trumpet and saxophone. Charles left school in 1945, and began his quest to become, as he put it at the time, a “great musician.” He made one promise to himself: “No dog, no cane, no guitar. I associated those things with helplessness and begging.” Soon he was a fixture on the Florida club circuit, with a style that drew heavily on Nat “King” Cole and Charles Brown. Florida could not contain Charles’ ambitions, however, and – after asking a fellow musician which American city was the farthest from Tampa – he lit out for Seattle. He got a recording contract there and released his first single, “Confession Blues," in 1949. Atlantic Records signed him in 1952 and offered Charles the freedom he needed to develop his sound, allowing him to produce his own sessions and work with top-flight musicians. From the July 8, 2004 issue of Rolling Stone.

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