Artist Profile: John I Ray – Living in Fear

October 6, 2014
DUNIA Contributor
Posted in Film, Music & Dance

ARTIST PROFILE

John I Ray started music at the early age of 15 in the church choir in Cameroon. He represented his state in a music star competition at this early age and took the second position. At the age of 18, he recorded his first Album “Look at the Nation”. And six years later he recorded his second Album “John the Baptist”, which was a big success. He later decided to move deeper into music by studying music production and sound engineering. During that period, he found that he was unable to stop composing, writing and singing songs.

John I Ray today is a sound engineer, a music producer and sole proprietor of a professional music recording studio in Dallas Texas, United States, where he is now based. His newly released album titled “Life Too Short” is now in stores, signed by Dream Safari.

John I ray has recorded and produced a good number of singers who are now breaking through, and has also shared the stage with super stars like Marcia Griffiths, Glenn Washington, Lucky Dube and Tanya Stephens. John I Ray says, “My mum taught me rhythm even when I was still in her womb and my dad challenged me to discover that African Traditional music co-exists with spiritual and world music”. He went further to explain that the palace roots of parents’ family inculcated the early principles of music and rhythm into his being from a very early age.

John I Ray believes that without music this world would not be a better place to live.

LIVING IN FEAR: SONG