I saw him much later in life not long before he died. He was a pale shadow of what he had been, but he was still Ray Charles! I can remember as a child loving seeing him on the TV when I was about 9 or 10 in the early ‘60s.
I say Jools Holland at the Brighton Centre two or three years ago with Jose Feliciano as special guest. Much of the encore was a Ray Charles tribute. Stunning.