Robert CRAY

⬇️ ROBERT CRAY ⬇️

(Robert William Cray)

DISCOGRAPHY 1977-2020 (56CD/DVD)

 BIOGRAPHY 

       

Robert William Cray (born August 1, 1953) is an American blues guitarist and singer. A five-time Grammy Award winner, he has led his own band, and had an acclaimed solo career.

He was born in Columbus, Georgia, when his parents were stationed at Fort Benning. The family eventually settled in Tacoma, Washington. He started playing guitar in his early teens. He attended Lakes High School in Lakewood, Washington.

By the age of twenty, Cray had seen his heroes Albert Collins, Freddie King and Muddy Waters in concert and decided to form his own band; they began playing college towns on the West Coast. In the late 1970s he lived in Eugene, Oregon, where he formed the Robert Cray Band and collaborated with Curtis Salgado in the Cray-Hawks. In the 1978 film National Lampoon's Animal House, Cray was the uncredited bassist in the house party band Otis Day and the Knights.

After several years of regional success, Cray was signed to Mercury Records in 1982. Two albums on HighTone Records in the mid-1980s, Bad Influence and False Accusations, were moderately successful in the United States and in Europe, where he was building a reputation as a live artist...... (Wikipedia)