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1) Ray
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Flashing back intermittently to dream-like scenes from his hardscrabble rural childhood, "Ray" chronicles Ray Charles' remarkable rise from sideman and Chitlin Circuit fixture to innovator, icon, and international superstar. Yet even as Charles ascends to the heights of the musical and cultural elite, he remains hobbled by heroin addiction and compulsive womanizing, a prisoner to his own insatiable needs. Through it all, Ray Charles possessed a rock-solid...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A song from the heart; Maryann Lowery is a beautiful, blind cellist and music teacher at the Milford Cnservatory of Music. She enjoys her quiet, comfortable life with her frined and widowed neighbor, Oliver. Gregory Pavan, a world-famous musician, visits the Conservatory to record an upcoming album. The two fall for for each other, ture love is waiting right before her eyes. Angel in the family; An ailing widowed father and his two estranged daughters...
3) Ray
Language
English
Description
Ray Charles went blind at the age of seven. Inspired by his mother who insisted he make his own way, he found his calling at the keyboard. 'Ray' follows as be overcomes drug addiction while becoming one of the country's most beloved performers.
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Maryann Lowery is a beautiful, blind cellist and music teacher at the Milford Conservatory of Music. She enjoys her quiet, comfortable life with her friend and widowed neighbor, Oliver. When Gregory Pavan, a world-famous musician, visits the Conservatory to record an upcoming album, he sees undiscovered talent in Maryann. Gregory promises fame and convinces her to undergo a risky eye operation. As the two fall for each other, it will take a life-changing...
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Selma, a Czechoslovakian immigrant, is a single mother working in a factory in rural America circa 1964. She is also afflicted by a hereditary disease, which will cost her her sight. Determined to protect her 10-year-old son from the same fate, Selma is saving her money to get him an operation. In the evenings, Selma escapes by rehearsing for a production of The Sound of Music with her best friend. When a neighbor betrays her trust, Selma's life...
6) Ray
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Ray Charles was born in a poor predominantly black town in central Florida. He went blind at the age of 7. With the staunch support of his determined single mother, he developed a fierce resolve. He had wit and incredible talent which would eventually enable him to overcome not only Jim Crow racism and the cruel prejudices against the blind, but also discover his own sound which revolutionized American popular music. Nonetheless, as Ray's unprecedented...
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