Ray Lynch

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

Already the mother and the older brothers of Ray were playing classical pianist and he learned to play five or six years of piano. Later he discovered his enthusiasm for the Ukelele classical guitar.

After a youthful rock - and-roll Intermezzo he decided to serious studies of music and went at the age of 18 years for three years to Barcelona to play the guitar to learn from Eduardo Sainz de la Maza. After returning to Texas, he studied at the University of composition and music theory. Subsequently, he was also successful as an orchestra composer.

At the same time he discovered during the university years, the phonemes as a tool in itself and therefore the old music, especially the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

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

So then he succeeded with the album Deep Breakfast in the following year, the big breakthrough. It is considered an outstanding instrumental album and sold to the 90s into over a million copies. The most famous piece of Ray Lynch of this album is the Celestial Soda Pop.

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

The title The Oh of Pleasure was used in the 2008 video game Grand Theft Auto IV.

Discography

  • Truth Is the Only Profound (1982, set to music texts)
  • The Sky of Mind (1983 )
  • Deep Breakfast (1986 )
  • 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 " Instrumental Album of the Year " ( No Blue Thing, 1990)
  • Platinum for the album Deep Breakfast ( achieved in 1993 )
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