Gallery: Ray Charles performing throughout the years
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Ray Charles, Rhythm 'n' Blues Festival, Peer, Belgium, 07/1994. (Photo by Gie Knaeps/Getty Images)
American singer, pianist and songwriter Ray Charles performs in concert, circa 1985. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
American singer, songwriter and pianist, Ray Charles (1930 - 2004) poses for a portrait, New York City, 1959. (Photo by James Kriegsmann/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
American R&B and Soul musician and band leader Ray Charles (born Ray Charles
Robinson, 1930 - 2004) plays piano as he performs during a JVC Jazz Festival concert at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, New York, New York, June 29, 1994. (Photo by Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images)
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Ray Charles, Rhythm 'n' Blues Festival, Peer, Belgium, 07/1994. (Photo by Gie Knaeps/Getty Images)