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Ray Stevens

Friday, September 21, 2012
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Ray Stevens just thinks funny. His humor is keenly observant and rich in nuance. His style is unaffected and unpretentious which for the past fifty years has allowed for entertainment that is both witty and guileless.

From his multi-million selling comedy hit, The Streak to the socially aware Mr. Businessman to his Grammy award winning pop standard Everything Is Beautiful his talent has touched so many. Not only a singer and composer, Ray has also produced, arranged and played on the recordings of some of Nashville's most legendary performers.s, anywhere.

As a seven year-old taking piano lessons Ray had a realization, and in his own words, "It all made sense." From that time on music was his life. By the time he was a teenager in Albany, Georgia, he had absorbed many of the great Southern musical influences, from country to rhythm and blues. At age fifteen he sang and played piano in a band, the Barons and they played all over the area for the American Legion, the Elks, private parties,anywhere.

At age seventeen he moved to Atlanta where he met radio personality and Georgia Tech football broadcaster, Bill Lowery. "Bill had all types of shows. He was on several different radio stations around