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A deeply personal memoir of the private Ray Charles - the person behind the story - by his eldest son.
Ray Charles is an American music story. A multiple Grammy Award-winning composer, pianist, and performer with an inimitable vocal style and a catalog of visits including "What I Say," "Georgia on My Mind," "Unchain My Heart and soul," "I CANNOT Stop Loving You," and "America the Beautiful," Ray Charles's music is loved by fans round the world.
Now his eldest son, Ray Charles Robinson Jr., stocks an intimate glimpse of the person behind the music, with never-before-told tales. Going beyond the popularity, the concerts, and the travels, Ray Jr. starts the entrance doors of his family home and reveals their private lives with fondness and frankness.
He stocks his father's grief and guilt over his little brother's fatality at the age of five — as well of occasions of personal happiness, like viewing his daddy run his hands over the Xmas presents under their tree while performing softly to himself. He says of how Ray overcame the obstacles to be blind, even travelling cars, driving a Vespa, and soaring his own airplane. And, in gripping details, he reveals how as a six-year-old young man he kept his father's life one harrowing night time.
Ray Jr. writes genuinely about the painful facts of the craving that nearly ruined his father's life. His father's problems with heroin craving, his arrests, and exactly how he finally kicked the drug chilly turkey are presented in unflinching details. Ray Jr. also stocks openly about how, as an adult, he fell sufferer to the same temptations that plagued his daddy.
He paints a compassionate portrait of his mom, Della, whose amazing speech as a gospel performer first attracted Ray Charles. Though her husband's drug use, his womanizing, and the paternity suits leveled against him constantly threatened the steadiness of the Robinson home, Della exhibited amazing resilience and interior strength.
Advised with deep love and fearless candor, You Don't Know Me is the powerful and poignant account of the Ray Charles the public never saw — the father and partner and fascinating human being who also been one of the greatest musicians ever.
