![]() She was 9 years old and lived with the singer. Hopefully all that turns you into a more well-rounded, experienced human being.” Remembering his granddaughterĪmong the dark times: His granddaughter, Haley, died in 2010 from a neurological condition that affected her most of her life. It’s the sheer life you live, the ups and downs, the tragedies. I think around 1996 or '97, I started to come into that a little bit. “When David Gilmour plays a solo, I want to stop everything I’m doing and listen. “What made Frank Sinatra so compelling to listen to is that it’s like he’s speaking to you when he sang,” Raye says. These days, everything Raye sings is tempered with more shading and emotional resonance. Raye even can get barroom bluesy check out his fierce cover of the Stones' "Brown Sugar" from 1997's "Stone Country." And because he grew up equally influenced by country and pop, he can sing pretty much everything: He sounds at home with both piano man Jim Brickman and honky-tonker Joe Diffie. “You don’t just sing it you breathe it.”Īt 58, his rangy tenor is in fine shape he could be Don Henley's clean-living little brother with that honey-coated voice. Raye is blessed in that he can sound intimate one minute, powerful enough to fill an arena the next. “You do these songs thousands of times and they become part of you,” he says. Now that he has lived with the songs for several years, he knows how to dig deep into the material. Maybe I’m listening to the producers too much, but I’m just singing so carefully.” I was still a young man kind of finding my way. ![]() “If you listen to the originals of ‘Love, Me’ or ‘In This Life,’ you can tell I’m still learning. “I sing them so much better now than I did then,” Raye says, matter-of-factly.
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