You Dont Know Me - Reflections of My Father, Ray Charles
✍ Scribed by Robinson, Ray Charles Jr
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 303 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780307462954
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
A deeply personal memoir of the private Ray Charles - the man behind the legend - by his eldest son.
Ray Charles is an American music legend. A multiple Grammy Award-winning composer, pianist, and singer with an inimitable vocal style and a catalog of hits including "What I Say," "Georgia on My Mind," "Unchain My Heart," "I Can't Stop Loving You," and "America the Beautiful," Ray Charles's music is loved by fans around the world.
Now his eldest son, Ray Charles Robinson Jr., shares an intimate glimpse of the man behind the music, with never-before-told stories. Going beyond the fame, the concerts, and the tours, Ray Jr. opens the doors of his family home and reveals their private lives with fondness and frankness.
He shares his father's grief and guilt over his little brother's death at the age of five -- as well of moments of personal joy, like watching his father run his hands over the Christmas presents under their tree while singing softly to...