Factory sealed DVD Nominated for 6 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Ray stars Oscar winner Jamie Foxx as the one-of-a-kind innovator of soul who overcame impossible odds to become a music legend. It's the triumphant and remarkable story of one of America's true musical geniuses, Ray Charles. "Ray is electrifying," hails Peter Travers of Rolling Stone. Witness the incredible true story of a musician who fought harder and went further than anyone could imagine.
Dear Sirs: Aside from what had to be shown as the reality of Ray Charles's life. Isn't amazing what came out of the man's soul. It was and will always be one of my favorite musical stories. I just goes to prove we can be what we want to be and we can change. His wife did the right thing and every one won. Thank you world for Ray Charles Robinson and his beautiful mother.
Ray is a 2004 film based on the true story of Rhythm & Blues Musician Ray Charles Robison raised on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida and went blind at the age of 7 shortly after seeing his younger brother drowning in a small washing tub , inspired by his hard working mother who insisted he makes his own way into the world and learned piano at an early age from a local and grew up to be a pretty good piano , keyboard player touring chitlin circuit til..
By this point it's pretty hard to do something original with a biopic, and now that I've seen several of them (particularly the musical kind) a pattern has emerged. Typically, they will pick a time period in a person's life/career and focus on a certain personal struggle and how they overcome it. With musicians, this often involves women and substance abuse. 'Tis the same story with Ray Charles. RAY focuses on Ray Charles' beginnings in the music business up throug..