Ray
Horton was born in the german city Heidelberg, where his father worked
for the US-Army. Quickly after his birth he went back to the States
and grew up in Seattle/Washington, where he was already a little gospel
star at the age of 9. He rememberes his first solo sing part at the
choir very good and remembered, that all the people started to scream
as he started to sing.
Even today Ray’s voice got a great effect to the people. Ray's
past in the music business goes back to The Real Milli Vanilli, in 1990, where
he was a singer/rapper. After that, he was a member of the group "Try'n'B" (1992) which had some hits like "Sexy Eyes" and "Tell Me Whenre It Hurts". Then, after doing some projects, Ray was
in Toni Cottura's old Fun Factory guys in the new formation as Fun
Affairs and sang on the phone-answer machine of Steve Browarczyk (who
later became part of Triple-S and then CBM and was part of the Underdog
Project producers) who was part of the "new" Fun Factory,
too, and Toni was like "whoa! who is this guy" when he called
him and heard the answering-message.
He wanted Ray’s phone number immediatly and called him a few
day’s later. After the call, Ray went directly to the Booya
studios and recorded at the same day the song Remember the Time for
the very popular Booya artist Nana. That was in January 1998 and since
then Ray was on Tour with the Booya Family and recorded more songs
for Nana like “Dreams",“Pocket full of Memories”
and “You”.
Then Ray’s first solo single was released, called “Because
I love you”, a cover of the Stevie B. Hit. This single shows
all the talent that Ray got in his voice and is the first single of
Ray’s first Pop/R&B Album, "First Time", that was released in 1999. Then followed the singles "I Cty" and "Tell My Hear", but with less success. After thatn, the Booya Family split, and ray worked with Criss Tonino and the groups Minimax Project, Sonat and Sozey, for Phatt Krazy records. Here is also where he recorded the songs "The One 4 Me" and featured on the song "Winner 4 Life". This was in 2000-2002.
in 2003, Ray did feature in some projects. Among them was the project Peaceworkers, with the song "Stop the war (from starting)".
Then it took some years before we heard something new from Ray. In Bamberg, Germany (where he was living until the end of 2008), he hooked up with the producers Drastic and DMO from the Chrome Headz. Ray was impressed by their performance and then the guys started to work together. In 2007-2008, we culd hear a lot of amazing songs with Ray and the Chrome Headz like "Under The Bridge", "Our Story ( Happy Birthday)", "Crappy New Year", "From me 2 U" and serveral others. Drastic and DMO are very talented producers and they really bring out the best in Ray.
