Ray Lynch

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Ray Lynch (born July 3, 1943 in Utah ) is an American new age musician.

Ray's mother and older brothers were classical pianists and so he learned to play the piano at the age of five or six. Later he discovered the classical guitar through his enthusiasm for the ukelele.

After a teenage rock and roll interlude, he decided to take serious music studies and at the age of 18 went to Barcelona for three years to learn to play the guitar with Eduardo Sainz de la Maza . After returning to Texas, he studied composition and music theory at university. Subsequently he was also successful as an orchestral composer.

At the same time he discovered the lute as an instrument for himself and thus early music , especially the Renaissance and Baroque, during his university days.

After a creative, spiritual break, he turned to popular, electronic New Age music and published his first self-composed instrumental album The Sky of Mind in 1983 , which made him known to insider circles.

The following year he made his big breakthrough with the album Deep Breakfast . It is considered an outstanding instrumental album and sold over a million times by the 1990s. Ray Lynch's most famous track from this album is Celestial Soda Pop .

The follow-up album No Blue Thing also helped Lynch to win several Billboard Music Awards, despite lower sales.

The title The Oh of Pleasure was used in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV in 2008 and in the 2009 film Gentlemen Broncos .

On the morning of September 13, 2015, Lynch and his partner fell victim to the wildfires that were regularly occurring in California at the time. With no warning issued for the district, Lynch's wife went to bed at around 2 a.m. Lynch, however, continued to work in his studio as usual. At around 4:00 a.m., he noticed that the flames were now blazing in the immediate vicinity of the house and fled the house with his wife and the two cats. Although the couple escaped with their lives, the joint house in Lake County , including the home studio , all master tapes and instruments, fell victim to the flames.

Discography

  • Truth Is the Only Profound (1982, lyrics set to music)
  • The Sky of Mind (1983)
  • Deep Breakfast (1984)
  • No Blue Thing (1989)
  • Nothing Above My Shoulders but the Evening (1993)

Awards

  • Billboard Award for "Instrumental Artist of the Year" (1989 and 1990)
  • Billboard Award for the "Instrumental Album of the Year" ( No Blue Thing , 1990)
  • Platinum for the album Deep Breakfast (reached 1993)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Click here to support Wildfire support for Ray Lynch organized by Grant Huling. Retrieved October 18, 2017 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Lynch, Ray
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American new age musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Utah , United States