Walter Wray

b. 7 Feb 1959, Portsmouth, Hampshire, Britain. Melodic pop singer-songwriter Walter Wray started singing in regional church choirs being a schoolboy. Nevertheless, by age 16 he previously mastered your guitar, and began writing songs along with his initial music group, entitled Shitehot. Reading music and British books at Sheffield School, Wray continued composing until in 1986 he, and his music group, Junk, agreed upon to regional label Native Information. Rubbish’s debut record, Cuckooland, and associated single, ‘The Globe Doesn’t Convert’, were everything that emerged from the offer, though the one did enter the united kingdom indie graphs. By 1988 Wray acquired moved on to create Ruler Swamp. After putting your signature on to Virgin Information and touring thoroughly this clothing also petered away, despite even more positive press for Wray’s music. Possibly acquiring the hint, he retreated rather to a far more self-sufficient electric guitar/voice solo structure, though he held in the punishing touring timetable inaugurated by his previous bands. Starting for INXS, Jeff Healey, Gary Clarke, Julia Fordham and Jools Holland, Wray continued to provide his debut record in Oct 1993. Co-produced with Sting guitarist Dominic Miller, Foxgloves & Metal Strings drew fawning testimonials in the critics. The 1st single extracted from the recording, ‘Heaven On Our Part’, was influenced from the blue and precious metal face mask of Tutankhamun. The next excerpt, ‘Can’t Contact It Like’/‘A Hands To Keep’, conversely got its subject material from the dark US doo-wop performers from the 50s and 60s.