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Ray De Tone
BUDWEISER ARTIST OF THE
MONTH
Rhythm And News Magazine
Ray De Tone
BUDWEISER ARTIST OF THE
MONTH
Rhythm And News Magazine
"...Ray De Tone is a professional guitarist
featured in Guitar Player magazine . An eclectic
player, fusing the elements of rock, blues, progressive, country,
metal, alternative and even bluegrass, creating a signature sound that
stands out amidst todays' onslaught of redundancy. Melody and emotional
intensity coupled with the right
style and sound for the song are of utmost importance to this fine
guitarist.
And this musical maturity is showcased on his 3 instrumental CDs to date! Ray is also a
published
songwriter(ASCAP) with over 300 songs (words & music) in his
catalogue,
an accomplished producer, working double duty on many sessions as
guitarist
and producer... "
HIGHLIGHTS / BIO
"Spanish Gypsy" from Ray's Guitar Noir
CD is being used by
2007 World Junior Figure Skating Champion, Caroline Zhang. mp3 stream
Caroline is skating her 2007/2008 short program to it; all to be aired on NBC-TV.
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Recorded/Performed with Grammy Winning Producer-Neil Dorfsman (Sting, Paul McCartney, Dire Straits); keyboardist-Adam Holzman (Miles Davis);
drummer-Van Romaine (Steve Morse, Enrique Iglesias); drummer-Nir Z (Chris Cornell, Genesis); drummer-Bernard Davis (Anita Baker); drummer-Courtney Williams (kd lang );
drummer-Rosa Avila (Andy Williams); drummer-Louie Appel (Debbie Gibson
, Southside Johnny); drummer-Alex Alexander ( Dido, Blackmore); Billy Cliff (vox-Pet Shop Boys,Spyro Gyra); studio
ace guitarist , Nick Moroch ( everyone everywhere);
Paul Dianno's Killers;
FAME-TV star Carlo Imperato; bassist-Mark Clarke(Mountain, Rainbow),
members of Billy Joel's band, Iggy Pop's
band,
Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, Steve Vai's band, Billy Squire's band ,
bassist-Dave Keyes (Renaisance, Willy
DeVille ); bassist-Ric Mullen (Commander Cody) and so on.
Toured with Iron Maiden's original singer,
Paul
Dianno in the band , KILLERS; Ronnie Spector; CBS recording artist
Drive,
She Said and has performed in the NYC area with countless bands,
including
Tracey Blue, Life On Mars and many Chinese pop stars touring here in the US Performs "Images" on Jason Becker Tribute, Warmth In The Wilderness II CD along with atrists such as Composes continually for the Omni Music library, placing music on their Comedy, Street, Eastern, Reflections and Xmas Composed 6 pieces of music for ComedyNet to be incorporated with their artists' performance art videos. PG-TV w.TDM
Productions and Soundtrack Solutions has commissioned Ray for 8 pieces
of instrumental
Strange World
CD
licensed by MTV's "Undressed" for 2002 production.
Once More...With Feeling!!! CD licensed in Japan by Big M.F./Zain Records.
Released
date - April 8, 2000
#1 Artist / ARTIST
OF
THE
WEEK on the Top 10 Artist chart at BILLBOARD's Talent
Network
for the week of Dec.10, 1999 .
"...With thousands of bands and mp3's at
their
site Riffage.com has just made available The Best of Riffage Rock CD
featuring
Ray's Stew from Ray DeTone's Once
More...With
Feeling!!!CD."
Charted on the BTN Radio Top 50 at BILLBOARD's Talent
Network
47 straight weeks with the CD Once
More...With
Feeling!!!peaking at #3.
Played guitar in the pit orchestra for
Jesus
Christ Superstar and Godspell.
Composed and performed songs and musical
scores
for film and TV including Bennu Productions "Renegade Justice" starring
Charles
Bronson, "Say No To Strangers" starring Carlo Imperato;
TigerProductions
"Open Season" and RAI-TV, Italy "The Raffaella Carra Show".
Co-writer with hit songwriters Mark Mangold
(Cher,
Michael Bolton), Essra Mohawk (Cyndi Lauper, Tina Turner) and Bob
Khozouri(Eternal).
Songs from Once
More...With Feeling!!!are featured on MusicSojourn.com's Night Visions E-radio show
along
with groups like King Crimson, Yes, Mullmuzzler, Adrian Belew &
Genesis.
Studied music with Steven Tyler of
Aerosmith's
father, "uncle" Vic Talerico.
Teaches guitar privately and does clinics
in
the NYC area. He feels this helps to keep him in touch with today's
styles
while allowing him to explore alternate styles that he normally
wouldn't
make the time to study because of his busy schedule.
Endorsements include VHT Amps DR Strings
HIPSHOT Zaolla Silver cables
MIT
cables
D'Andrea picks and BAG END
speakers.
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