Ray Gillen

Ray Gillen (* 12. May 1959 in New York City , New York ; † 1. December 1993 ) was an American hard rock - singer .

Life

Gillen grew up in Cliffside Park , New Jersey . His main musical influences were rock bands from the 1970s such as Bad Company , Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple . In the rock music scene , Gillen mainly appeared in the late 1980s, after Tony Iommi saw him as a worthy successor to the singer Glenn Hughes , and made the Native American American an offer to join Black Sabbath . After a tour, Iommi first recorded the album The Eternal Idol with Gillen as a singer, but shortly afterwards had Tony Martin's vocal traces re-recorded. The demo recordings with Gillen on the vocal microphone were initially only distributed as bootlegs , but were released in 2010 on a deluxe edition of the album.

He later formed the band Badlands with former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Jake E. Lee , with whom he recorded three albums. He was also one of the chosen musicians for the all-star project Phenomena II (title: Dreamrunner ).

Gillen has worked as a guest musician for bands such as Savatage , The Cult and George Lynch .

Ray Gillen died in December 1993 from circumstances associated with AIDS and was buried in Bergen County , New Jersey .

In 1994 ex-Deep Purple and Black Sabbath musician Glenn Hughes organized a tribute concert in memory of the talented rock singer. Sebastian Bach and Paul Pescoe, the guitarist of the American singer Mariah Carey, took part in this concert .

In 1995 the debut album Sun Red Sun by the band of the same name was released, on which Gillen worked. His voice can be heard on four tracks on the album.

Discography (selection)

Badlands - Same (1989)
Badlands - Voodoo Highway (1991)
Badlands Dusk (1993)
Sun Red Sun - Al Romano (1995)
Phenomena - Dream Runner (1987)
Black Sabbath - The Eternal Idol Deluxe Edition (2010)

Individual evidence

↑ SOLOS AT HOME LEAD TO A CAREER IN ROCK ( Memento from May 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Gillen, Ray
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American hard rock singer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 12, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City , New York
DATE OF DEATH	1st December 1993
Place of death	New York City , New York

[1] SOLOS AT HOME LEAD TO A CAREER IN ROCK ( Memento from May 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English)


Studio albums	Black Sabbath (1970) • Paranoid (1970) • Master of Reality (1971) • Volume 4 (1972) • Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) • Sabotage (1975) • Technical Ecstasy (1976) • Never Say Die! (1978) • Heaven and Hell (1980) • Mob Rules (1981) • Born Again (1983) • Seventh Star (1986) • The Eternal Idol (1987) • Headless Cross (1989) • Tyr (1990) • Dehumanizer (1992 ) • Cross Purposes (1994) • Forbidden (1995) • 13 (2013)
Live albums	Live at Last (1980) • Live Evil (1982) • Cross Purposes Live (1995) • Reunion (1998) • Black Sabbath - Live at Hammersmith Odeon (2007)
Compilation albums	We Sold Our Soul For Rock & Roll (1976) • The Best of Black Sabbath (2000) • Greatest Hits 1970–1978 (2007) • Black Sabbath: The Dio Years (2007) •
Singles	Black Sabbath (1970) • Evil Woman (1970) • NIB • Paranoid (1970) • The Wizard (1970) • Iron Man (1971) • War Pigs (1971) • Fairies Wear Boots (1971) • Sweat Leaf (1971) • Children of the Grave (1971) • After Forever (1972) • Snowblind (1972) • Tomorrow's Dream (1972) • Supernaut (1973) • Changes (1973) • Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) • Sabbra Cadabra (1974) • Am I Going Insane (1975) • Hole in the Sky (1975) • Symptom of the Universe (1975) • Rock'Roll Doctor (1976) • Never Say Die (1978) • Hard Road (1978) • Dirty Woman (1979) • Neon Knights (1980) • The Young (1980) • Mob Rules (1981) • Turn Up the Night (1982) • Voodoo (1982) • Trashed (1983) • No Stranger to Love (1986) • The Shining (1987) • Headless Cross (1989) • Devil and Daughter (1989) • Feels Good to Me (1990) • TV Crimes (1992) • The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (1994) • Psycho Man (1998) • Selling My Soul (1999) • The Devil Cried (2007) • God is Dead? (2013) • End of the Beginning (2013) • The Loner (2013)