Imessage won't contect to one contact

Here is the situation,
one of my contacts has been trying to message me via imessage. His screen shows me as imessage. However, none of his messages can be successfully sent.
When I try to message him, my iphone will not recognize him as imessage. However, I can message a number of other friends via imessage. So far I've tried rebooting, and re-signing in.
Any thoughts as to only one contact not working for imessage.

Read this:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2755

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