When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles.
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Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life.
If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles.
I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.
My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music.
Charles James was a dear friend of mine when I was a little boy - 17, 18. He was mad as a hatter. I had no idea how famous he was.
I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.
Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear.
I knew BB King when he first started out.
Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.
I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
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