His mother, Lois Wray, was a local musician in the 1950s, she served as an opening act for several Sun Records artists, including Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins. He has also recorded a total of 11 studio albums, counting a Christmas album and a compilation of lullabies, in addition to releasing a Greatest Hits compilation, a live album, and a live CD/DVD package.įloyd Elliot Wray was born in De Queen, Arkansas. Four of Raye's singles have reached Number One on the Billboard country music charts: 1992's "Love, Me" and "In This Life", 1995's "My Kind of Girl", and 1998's "I Can Still Feel You". country charts he has also charted twice on the Adult Contemporary format as a duet partner on two Jim Brickman songs. He did not record another studio album until 2005's Twenty Years and Change, released on an independent label.īetween 19, Raye charted 30 singles on the U.S. 2001's Can't Back Down was his first album that did not produce a Top 40 country hit, and he was dropped by his record label soon afterward. Raye maintained several Top Ten hits throughout the rest of the decade and into 2000. All I Can Be was the first of four consecutive albums released by Raye to achieve platinum certification in the United States for sales of one million copies each. He made his solo debut in 1991 as Collin Raye with the album All I Can Be, which produced his first Number One hit in " Love, Me". He initially recorded as a member of the band The Wrays between 19. Floyd Elliot Wray (born August 22, 1960), known professionally as Collin Raye and previously as Bubba Wray, is an American country music singer.
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