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artist had he not been blind. Did his blindness make him so alive to sound that he became a better musician? He was so attuned to the world around him that he never used a cane or a dog; his blindness was more of an attribute than a handicap.

The saga opens in 1948 when 19year-old blind musician Ray Charles Robinson is leaving his rural North Florida home for Seattle, where he has a connection with the local jazz scene and hopes of getting a gig at>

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