Raymond Lynch was born on July 3,1943 and is an American guitarist, lutenist, keyboardist, and composer known for his new-age releases in the 1980s.
19 Facts About Ray Lynch
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Ray Lynch vaulted to fame in 1986 with the single "Celestial Soda Pop" and the 1984 album Deep Breakfast, becoming the first independent new-age artist certified Gold for sales of 500,000.
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Ray Lynch sued his label Music West and joined Windham Hill in 1992 before retiring in 2000.
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Ray Lynch was born on July 3,1943, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Ray Lynch's father was a lawyer; Ray Lynch's mother was a noted watercolorist and an amateur pianist who influenced him to create music as a child.
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Three years later Ray Lynch returned to the university to study composition with various instruments including guitar, lute, and vihuela.
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In 1967, while still in college, Ray Lynch was invited to New York City to join the Renaissance Quartet, performing the lute alongside Robert White, Barbara Mueser, and Morris Newman, replacing Joseph Iadone.
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Ray Lynch performed with other groups, such as "Festival Winds", as well as collaborative and solo performances.
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Ray Lynch taught the guitar, lute, and vihuela in the Mexican city of Taxco in the late 1960s.
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Two years later, Ray Lynch released his first album, Truth Is the Only Profound, which recites the teachings of Adi Da "set to the background of devotional music and songs".
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Ray Lynch later followed up with an instrumental album, The Sky of Mind.
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When Ray Lynch released his third album, Deep Breakfast, in 1984 independently, he sold over 72,000 albums out of his small apartment.
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In 1991, Ray Lynch sued Music West for allegedly not paying him for his work.
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Ray Lynch left Music West, taking the rights to his music with him, and signed up with Windham Hill Records.
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Under the new record company, Ray Lynch followed up with his final album, the classical Nothing Above My Shoulders but the Evening, in 1993.
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Ray Lynch left Windham Hill in 2000 and re-released his own catalog of music under his own record company.
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In September 2015, Ray Lynch's house was destroyed by the Valley Fire, along with his studio, awards, and the master tapes of his music.
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Ray Lynch had been both a student and follower of Adi Da since 1974.
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However, in a 1989 Arizona Republic interview, Ray Lynch clarified that he wasn't trying to promote Da's work through his music.