Artist: Ray Wilson
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
The Next Best Thing
Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
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Year: 2003
Tracks: 17
Gifted with a warm, shingly voice, Scottish singer Ray Wilson has had a career of high and lows so far. A Levi's TV ad dragged him taboo of tilt limbo and propelled his group Stiltskin into the UK charts. A few months later on, his hiring as Phil Collins' renewal in Genesis shoved him into the public eye, simply only for a brief period of time. The group's straightaway abandon in the face of adversity (i.e. unsatisfactory gross revenue of the record album Calling All Stations) brought Wilson down and left him unfairly carrying the system of weights of the failure. He is tardily edifice back a solo vocation.
Mount Wilson was born in Dumfries, Scotland, September 9, 1968. His first-class honours degree high school rock bands included his brother Steve. In 1988 he met bar piano player Paul Holmes at a bar where his girlfriend american ginseng. They started a songwriting partnership and deuce long time after they formed Guaranteed Pure, which as well included Steve Wilson and future Cut bassist John Haimes. The group released a duet of tapes and one CD, Swing Your Bag which they recorded at Fish's studio. The deed runway appeared on the Fish curated digest Outpatients ‘93, but the grouping failed to attract much interest. Holmes returned to the piano bar circuit and Guaranteed Pure disintegrated.
Beam Wilson was non left without a band for long. In January 1994 he was asked by to unite Stiltskin. The group instantly entered the studio apartment to record The Mind's Eye (1995). In the lag, the vocal "Inside" got featured on television system in an advertisement for Levi's jeans. The exposure shot the individual to No. 1, but the grouping fell aside o'er national dissensions.
That's when Wilson heard that Genesis were look for a new singer. He passed the auditory modality and panax quinquefolius and contributed lyrics to the 1997 album Calling All Stations. His voice existence slightly resonant of Peter Gabriel, fans of the band were hoping for a devolve to the group's sooner good, merely the isaac Bashevis Singer ne'er had a chance to leave his depression. After record album and ticket gross sales failed to meet expectations in America, voice of Genesis' 1998 reality circuit was off, the group put on the ice, and Wilson on the side pillaged. He immediately formed Cut with drummer Nir Z. (Collins' drumming replacing), John Haimes and brother Steve, releasing Millionairehead on the German market in 1999. In 2001 he made an acoustic solo tour of Europe which yielded the self-released record album Unplugged, retitled Live and Acoustic when picked up by Inside Out Music in mid-2002.
