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                     Cosmic Ray , 
                      The Musician 
Ray Scott began his performance career at the age of 10 in 
                    British Guiana when he formed the group "Ray and the Melody 
                    Makers". By his late teens his band, "Ray Scott and Merge" 
                    were national superstars, performing British and American 
                    Rock and Roll. As a child Ray studied violin with the premiere 
                    teacher in the nation. He is a drummer and composes on the 
                    keyboard.
 As a British citizen, he took advantage of the ease with 
                    which he could move to Canada, where he continued his career, 
                    took voice training with Paul Pander and began writing music. 
                    Based in Toronto, he formed "Ray Scott and the Saints", a 
                    large resident club band, that played at the Concord when 
                    he was in town. "Sunray" was his pared down touring band that 
                    toured clubs around Canada, playing six nights a week, 4 sets 
                    a night. Their performances always guaranteed a good crowd. 
                    Some of the well know and respected musicians who were members 
                    of his band were: David Stone (keyboard), Allen Webster (drummer) 
                    and B. B. Gabor (guitar). In the late 1970s he set up his 
                    own club, LA DISCO, on Danforth and settled into a more residential 
                    schedule. He also put together the first Black Funk Band in 
                    Canada, "Scott Free". He became known as "Cosmic Ray ". In 1979 he toured 
                    as a Yahama Sponsored Event. That same year his "Space in 
                    Time" was one of the 10 winning pieces in the radio Q107 "Home 
                    Grown Talent Competition". This competition was created to 
                    find the best of Canadian pop music bands and showcase them 
                    on an album to benefit UNICEF. He produced the album "No More 
                    Fire in the Sky". The entire album adds up to a powerful musical 
                    poem in the pop music genre that protests man's inhumanity 
                    to man, war and potential nuclear holocaust. In the late 1980s 
                    he started his own production company, Gold Records. In addition 
                    to producing his own work he produced "The Love Birds" and 
                    the heavy metal band "Maltese" which had success overseas. 
                    During that time period he headlined at such venues as The 
                    Roxy and The El Rey. For a few years he had his own restaurant, 
                    The Cosmic Diner, at The El Rey, where he did command performances 
                    for special customers like Arsinio Hall. He has a large library 
                    of compositions and is registered with SOCAN and BMI. Now Ray comes forward with a new body of pop music in his 
                    album "It's All About Love", which contains 14 original songs. 
                    The music reflects Ray's amazing ability as a musical artist 
                    to design with sound and words to target and create the exact 
                    response he wants his audience to have. Once again he has 
                    crafted an album that is a total poetical piece composed of 
                    individual songs which are each a piece of pop music poetry 
                    in its own right. Expressing raw passion and desire, these 
                    are truly love songs to love and be love by. They say what 
                    every woman wants to hear her man say.  |