Fill in each numbered space with a suitable word. The Father of Soul Music Ray Charles Robinson was (1) _______ in 1930 in Georgia USA, but he grew up in Florida. He lived with his mother, Aretha, and his younger brother. They were very poor. (2) _______ Ray was five years old, his brother died and then two years (3) _______ Ray went blind. Aretha Robinson sent her son to St Augustine’s, a school for blind children. He studied classical music (4) _______. When Ray was fourteen, his mother died and he left school. For two years he played the piano with some local bands (5) _______ earn the money for a bus ticket to Seattle. There he played in clubs and bars. He didn’t earn a lot of money, but he loved music. ‘Music,’ he said, ‘was like food or water for me.’ (6) _______ first he sang songs by other famous singers, but he soon created a new kind of music. He used blues, jazz, country, and gospel music and he created ‘soul music’. He changed his name to Ray Charles, and by 1955 (7) _______ poor black boy from Florida was rich and famous. He gave a lot of (8) _______ money to schools for blind black children. His life also had a dark side. He took heroin for many years. He was married and divorced twice and had twelve children. In 1988, a film director, Tarlor Hackford, started planning a film about the singer’s life. He called it Ray. The film’s star, Jamie Foxx, (9) _______ the Oscar for Best Actor in 2005. Sadly Ray Charles wasn’t there. He died in June 2004 at the (10) _______ of 73.