![]() These diverse musical influences served to enrich his development and ultimately his career. ![]() Moorehead School put him through strict classical music training, a program that was heightened after the young boy early on showed a natural talent for it.Įven so, Ronnie couldn’t get enough of the country music, gospel and rhythm and blues he listened to so avidly on the radio. All along, the sightless child took refuge in music. ![]() Unwilling to accept her newborn’s blindness, Ronnie’s mother gave him to his grandparents to raise when he was just a year old.Īt age 6, Ronnie was cut off from everything he knew and held dear when he was sent to the Governor Moorehead State School for the Blind in Raleigh. Ronnie Milsap talks with Mary Ann Cooper about his passion for his music and his familyĬountry And R&B legend Ronnie Milsap was born blind and into extreme poverty in the Appalachian town of Robbinsville, North Carolina.
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