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February 22, 2016 – June 26, 2016
Ray Charles was one of the most innovative and influential musicians of the 20th century. This display explores his ability to overcome blindness, poverty, and segregation, as well as the musical talent and flair for performance that made him an icon of American music.

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1. SIAHRC_160318_015.JPG: Chess set, 1980s Ray Charles loved the game of chess, and his own chess set was designed for blind players
2. SIAHRC_160318_022.JPG: Magazines in braille, 2003-2004 Ray Charles enjoyed reading the articles in braille editions of Playboy magazine and Reader's Digest. The Library of Congress has produced the braille version of Playboy, which has no pictures, since 1970.
3. SIAHRC_160318_030.JPG: Tuxedo, around 1990 Joe Adams, Ray Charles's longtime business manager, wore this tuxedo when serving as master of ceremonies at Charles's performances. Adams selected and designed clothing for Charles and his backup singers, the Raelettes.
4. SIAHRC_160318_054.JPG: Keyboard MIDI controller, around 1984 While on tour in the 1980s and 1990s, Ray Charles played this Yamaha KX88 electronic keyboard MIDI controller, customized with braille.
5. SIAHRC_160318_060.JPG: Shaving kit, 1975 Ray Charles carried this shaving kit while on tour. He preferred to use a safety razor with a sharp blade.
6. SIAHRC_160318_067.JPG: Travel case for Ray Charles Orchestra, 1998 This leather case held piano music that Ray Charles played. Charles was proficient in reading braille musical notation.
7. SIAHRC_160318_069.JPG: Tuxedos, 1990s Ray Charles wore these tuxedos while performing. Markers inside each shirt, jacket, and pair of pants helped him select a matched outfit.
8. SIAHRC_160318_089.JPG: Ray Charles Mike Peters
9. SIAHRC_160318_094.JPG: Ray Charles: "The Genius" Ray Charles overcame racism, poverty, and blindness to gain worldwide acclaim as a singer, songwriter, pianist, and arranger. His unique voice and passionate style made him one of the most beloved musicians of our time. With his genius for fusing gospel, rhythm and blues, soul, blues, jazz, country, rock, and pop, Charles became one of the most innovative and influential talents in American music. He made every song his own -- even crossover country ballots and a spellbinding rendition of America the Beautiful.
10. SIAHRC_160318_098.JPG: Ray Charles Robinson was born September 23, 1930, in Albany, Georgia. Blinded by glaucoma at the age of seven, he was sent to the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, where he learned to read and write music in braille and to play musical instruments. He made his first recordings at age seventeen, in the style of Nat King Cole. By the mid-1950s, Charles found his own sound -- one that fused the fervor of gospel music and the passion of the blues and paved the way for soul music. He became a musical superstar, but struggled in private with drug addiction; he quit, cold turkey, in 1965. With a legacy of some ten thousand live performances, recording beyond count, and many memorable hits -- including "I Got a Woman," "What'd I Say," and "Georgia on My Mind" -- Charles proved himself a musical visionary. He continued performing until his death on June 10, 2004.
11. SIAHRC_160318_102.JPG: Sunglasses, 1998 Ray Charles's Ray-Ban sunglasses became his celebrity trademark.
12. SIAHRC_160318_105.JPG: Jacket, 1992 Ray Charles wore this sequined tuxedo jacket during a 1992 performance in Rome.
13. SIAHRC_160318_110.JPG: Album covers and 45 rpm records, 1955-1976 Ray Charles began recording in the late 1940s, and in 1952 signed with Atlantic Records. In 1959 he switched to ABC Records and became one of the first recording artists to negotiate the right to own his masters.
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