Morning gin keeps Ray Charles fit

Singing legend Ray Charles stays fit by taking a shot of gin in his coffee every morning, according to actress Regina King.

Singing legend Ray Charles stays fit by taking a shot of gin in his coffee every morning, according to actress Regina King.

“Gin and coffee – that keeps him young,” says King, who plays the “other woman” in Charles’s life in the film biography Unchain My Heart: The Ray Charles Story which has just finished filming.

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