“I’ve been working towards this day for what feels like an eternity. Persistence is a virtue even more so than patience, I’ve learned a great deal about both in waiting anxiously for this day. Hope my local people can come out and help me celebrate the release of my very first original tune at City Bar Downtown. For the rest of the fans that stuck by, we’ll be seeing you guys soon I promise. Thanks for hanging in there.” -Ray Boudreaux
More about Ray:
Top 8 Finalist on NBC’s The Voice Season 5. Intertwined sparsely between Cajun French and Zydeco music Ray heard as a boy on a local Louisiana music station, Boudreaux found himself drawn to certain songs that were rich in blue-eyed soul singing, heavy handed with organs and saxophone solos, and it was this music, these 50’s and 60’s bayou soul love songs, or “Swamp Pop,” as the genre is referred to, onto which he latched himself.
At seventeen, Ray declined offers for college athletic scholarships to play music professionally, turning down his parents’ offer of a first car in exchange for his first guitar. By the time he was 20, he was regularly playing paid gigs.
-Matt@1063RL
