Recital: Sentimiento pasional. Miguel Hernández

belonged to such small family. It included only three relatives: his mother and another brother, who died when Ray was very young.

So this film is about his personal and professional life. The director has succeeded to show how his frenzied personal life damaged both himself and the rest of people which lived near him.

When he was five years old, and after his brother’s tragic death, he went blind. This was the reason why his mother asked him to learn all about music and to take a risk by himself because he was used to receiving his mother’s protection. It’s then when he walked by himself and played in any place where he arrived: streets, clubs…

Although he began a new life, he would never forget his previous experiences, which appear in the lyrics of most of his songs. As soon as he achieved fame, he discovered heroin, which was used as a source of inspiration. He soon had to fight against drugs and even governments that ignored black people in that time. He also disobeyed his government as he arrived in Georgia and refused to sing in a concert because black people was segregated and placed in the last rows. After that, he wasn’t allowed to sing in Georgia for a long period of time.

On the other hand, the plot of Ray is about a poor black man who achieves fame as a singer when black people are suffering from apartheid. He becomes rich and so worried about black people. He even rebels against governments because he defends black people’s rights and human rights in general. This is why the public in general, black and white, loves his music and his controversial personality.

Anyway, some experiences that belong to his personal life are even shown, like his addiction to heroin and his special interest in women.

Ray starts his life when he is working as a singer in different nightclubs. During the film the director looks back on his childhood and explains how he loses his mother and his brother, and even how he goes blind. In general, the film is very dramatic, thrilling and tragic, and, by contrast, so little soft as it tells something about his personal