Ray Shulman

Ray Shulman ( born December 8, 1949 in Portsmouth, England ) is a musician and founding member of progressive rock band Gentle Giant.

In 1966 he founded under the pseudonym " Simon Dupree " with his brothers Derek and Phil Shulman, the pop band Simon Dupree and the Big Sound. The members of the group was at times also Reginald Dwight, who later became known as Elton John. With Kites, the group arrived in 1967 to No. 9 of the British charts. Other notable achievements Simon Dupree and the Big Sound not so that the Shulmanbrüder 1970 renamed in Gentle Giant and their style changed radically.

Like its brothers, Ray Shulman was also a multi-instrumentalist, playing bass, trumpet, violin, drums, percussion and guitar. He was one of the main composers of Gentle Giant and especially their bassist. After Gentle Giant had dissolved, Ray wrote initially from 1982 to 1986 music for television and cinema.

From 1986 produced Shulman with The Sugarcubes songs like Life's too good, The Sundays ' Reading, writing and arithmetic or Ian McCulloch Candleland. These songs had great commercial success, especially the first two, which were sold over 1 million copies in stores. In addition, Ray played bass on the album 69 by AR Kane ( he can be heard on the songs Crazy Blue, Baby Milk Snatcher and Spermwhale trip over). He also played on the album Americana by Kane.

Later, Ray took two plates under the pseudonym " Head Doctor " on at Millennium Records. He also appears on a techno album collection. Ray Shulman wrote for PC games such as Privateer 2: The Darkening or Azrael 's Tears background music.

Other musicians with whom Ray Shulman had to do, were Darden Smith ( he plays violin on his album ), Grace Kairos ( on the album Emotions Park ), The Veldt, Afrodisiac and Lulabox and Granati Brothers, Hard Core.

• British Musician
• Bass player
• Progressive rock musicians
• Born in 1949
• Man