This is our cache of the profile last indexed on Thursday, June 05, 2008. Visit MySpace for updated profile. MySpaceProfiles.org is a search engine that indexes publicly available profile information from MySpace for convenient searching and display. If you are the author of this profile and do not wish to display it here please click here.
 Ray Charles ~ Panegyric's Profile |
|
I Never Wanted To Be Famous ~ I Only Wanted To Be Great ... Ray Charles |
|
| Age: | 42 years old |
| Sex: | Female |
| Location: | TEXAS |
| Country: |  United States |
| Height: | 0' 0" |
| Zodiac: |  Scorpio (Oct 23 - Nov 21) |
| Last Login: | Jun 3, 2008 (568 days back) |
About Me |
|
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't been able to hear. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~My version of "Georgia" became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, ''If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ ! | |
My Interests |
|
.. |
|
I'd like to meet:When Ray Charles could see, he saw nothing but trouble. As an infant, he could see, if not understand, his father walking out on him and his teenage mother Aretha. At 6 months, he and his mother moved from his birthplace, Albany, Ga., to Greenville, Fla., where all he saw was poverty, with his family being even poorer than most, "nothing below us 'cept the ground," as he put it. At age 5, he saw his younger brother George drown in a washtub. At about that time Ray developed what may have been glaucoma. He soon found he could stare straight at the sun. By the time he was 7, the sun stopped coming out. Ray Charles was born with the last name Robinson but dropped it to avoid being confused with the boxer Sugar Ray Robinson. The two had a lot in common--Charles had taken as many hits in life as any pugilist. According to Jet magazine, Ray's mother told him, before she died when he was 15, "You might not be able to do things like a person who can see. But there are always two ways to do everything. You've just got to find the other way." From an early age, he was searching. Wylie Pitman, a shopkeeper from round the way in Greenville, had a piano and a jukebox, and he used to invite young Ray to play them both. On the jukebox, Ray would hear blues from Tampa Red, jazz from Count Basie and pop from Nat King Cole; other times he listened to the box's country or classical selections. On some days, Pitman let Ray bang the keys of his piano. "That's it, sonny, that's it!" Pitman would cry, when Ray was on to something good. At 7, Charles enrolled in the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in St. Augustine as a charity student and learned to read music in Braille. "In Braille music, you can only read so many bars at a time," he once told PEOPLE. "You can't play it and see it at the same time, so your memory and understanding expand." By the time he was 12, his were elastic enough that he could arrange Big Band and orchestral music. Three years later he hit the road as a singer and pianist. He found his sound along the way. Back in Greenville, his mother had taken him to New Shiloh Baptist Church every Sunday. By the time he was signed by Atlantic Records in 1952, Charles was ready to preach. On I Got a Woman (1955), he used gospel yelps and yowls for secular purpose. On What'd I Say (1959), he employed the call-and-response of church choirs to generate musical momentum and sexual tension: "Uhhhh!" "Ohhhh!" He didn't need words to get across what he meant, but music writers had a word for his music: soul. "I got criticism from the churches, and from musicians too," he once said. "But I kept doing it, and eventually, instead of criticizing me for it, the people started saying I was an innovator." Charles has been called the father of soul, but that title is at once too broad and too limiting. He wasn't the first to combine gospel and the blues--but he did it so winningly, you could be sure he wouldn't be the last. He didn't add sex to church music--he just stopped denying it was there. But he was more than a soul provider. Throughout his career, he explored a variety of genres, including jazz and country, imbuing each with his singular grit and charm |
|
Music: |
|
My Background and Lifestyle |
|
| MaritalStatus: | Single |
| Children: | I don't want kids |
My Pictures |
|
       |
|
My Friends |
|
|
Quincy Jones, Willie Nelson ~ Panegyric, Billy Preston Tribute, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, Nat King Cole, Patrick Droney, Herbie Hancock, Johnny Cash Loves June Carter Cash ~ Panegyric, James Taylor, Betty Carter, Etta James ~ Panegyric, Diana Krall, Alicia Keys, Billy Joel ~ Panegyric, Sir Elton John ~ Panegyric, Sly Stone, The One Campaign, Dr. Nina Simone ~ Panegyric, Lionel Richie, Al Green, SRV ~ Friends & Influences, Billie Holiday ~ Panegyric, Esther Phillips ~ Panegyric, Georgia State, John Belushi, Hendrix, Lumonics Light Museum, Sheela Lionheart, Karin Parker, The Official Junco Partners, Zuzito * Descarga AmericanGangster REMIXED aki!, Sara Jo, Pablo Olivera, Joe Goyette, Brother Jacob Music, decimamusa, William T. And The Black 50's, Mississippi Blue, *Songs of Sofia*, Marla Sgro acoustic kitchen, Bion's Bluesbeat, niels foucault, Toein’ in the Dark, Jules, BIGPAPA IN THE HOUSE, Bob, joe la viola, Angie, El Graboratorio, Woody - Pop Go The Beatles - Lifton, César Romero Blues, Dragographist ;-), steve, Andrea Verlingieri, Chicken Jim Bluesband, XXXXX, Gustavo de Antonio, Beverly, Tin Spirits, Michaela Rabitsch & Robert Pawlik, Pipped At The Post Productions, The Datura Sessions, VICTOR LEED, Mettaphor, The ONE WAY Band, Massimo Dà, LAURA, Joe Martino, Christian Dozzler, Marcia, Sigrid
Ray Charles ~ Panegyric has 4,717 friends (72 shown). Click here to add Ray Charles ~ Panegyric as a friend. |
|
Tags |
|
|
Ray Charles ~ Panegyric's profile has been tagged with the following keywords. Click a tag to search for profiles with the same tags. frosting on the cake, musical roots, learning to read music, teenage mother, nothing but trouble, fantasized, new testament, fact of the matter, ray charles, affluence, pusher, spokes, kidneys, braille, musics, ribs, flour, liver, possibilities, poverty |
|
