“The extraordinary life story of Ray Charles. A man who fought harder and went farther than anyone thought possible.”
“If you want to do something to make your mama proud, promise me. Promise me you won’t let nobody turn you into no cripple, you won’t become no charity case, and you’ll stand on your own two feet.”
Ray-In a spookily accurate portal of Ray Charles, Jamie Foxx delivers a performance of a lifetime in the movie Ray. Ray Charles loses his eye sight as a child but someway manages to learn to play the piano and elevated himself into one of the most beloved rhythm and blues artist in the world.
In addition to Ray’s sightlessness, he likewise contends with racism and a drug addiction to heroin. Just one of those obstructions are adequate to keep most individuals from success but Ray takes what his mother teaches him about “making your own way in this world” to slingshot him to accomplishment.
Ray Charles has the differentiation of being both a national treasure and an international phenomenon. By the early 1960′s Ray Charles had achieved his dream. He’d come of age musically. He’d got in to Carnegie Hall. The hit records “Georgia,” “Born to Lose” in turn kept rising to the top of the charts.
He’d made his 1st victorious European concert tour in 1960 (a feat which, except for 1965, he’s duplicated at least once a year ever since). He had taken literally every form of popular music and pushed through its boundaries with such amazing accomplishments as the LP’s “Genius Plus Soul Equals Jazz” and “Modern Sounds in Country & Western. “Rhythm & Blues (or “race music” as it had been named) became universally honorable through his efforts.
Jazz found a mainstream audience it had never before enjoyed. And country & western music started to chart an unforeseen course to general acceptance, then universal popularity. And along the way Ray Charles was implemental in the design of rock & roll.
Born in a poor African American town in central Florida, Ray Charles went blind at the age of seven. With the steadfast support of his determined single mother, he acquired the fierce resolve, wit and incredible talent that would finally enable him to overcome not only racial discrimination and the cruel biases against the blind, but likewise discover his own sound which inspired American popular music.
Nonetheless, as Ray’s unprecedented fame developed, so did his weakness for drugs and women, till they threatened to strip away the very things he held most dear.
The movie grossed over 125 million worldwide and Jamie Foxx won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
This little known story of Ray Charles’ meteoric rise from modest beginnings, his successful battle to excel in a sighted world and his eventual defeat of his own personal monsters make for an inspiring and unforgettable true story of human triumph.
